Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month after the Organization of American States voted sanctions against the Dominican Republic in an effort to topple Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 69, the strongman is still in charge. Billboards dot the Dominican countryside with sycophantic testimonials: "Trujillo, Greatest Man of the Continent," "Trujillo, Dominican Glory," "Trujillo, Your People Adore...
...Sukarno, the U.A.R.'s Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
With every appearance of innocence and reasonableness, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.N., Vasily V. Kuznetsov, last week proposed a simple step to the Security Council. The recent decision by the Organization of American States calling for diplomatic and economic sanctions against the Dominican Republic should be approved by the Security Council. Its jurisdiction, said Kuznetsov, is clear, under Article 53 of the U.N. Charter, which says, "No enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements without authorization of the Security Council." On the surface, the action appeared only to range the U.N. on the side of the angels against...
...Give the Soviets a veto in case the OAS, as is likely, gets around to Dominican-pattern sanctions against Russia's new friend Cuba...
...million now. Castro-imitating hotheads have scared off investors by demanding more government controls. Partly as a concession to the leftists, Betancourt has canceled new oil concessions and slashed rents 25%, shaking confidence still more. Chronic crisis-Betancourt's hands are only freshly healed from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's attempt last June to dynamite him to bits -further contributed to economic trouble...