Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic last year, news men who covered the fighting there have laid down a barrage of hastily written books about the crisis, mostly echoing Senator William Fulbright's plaint that Washington was guilty of "overreaction." The most cogent and authoritative account of the affair, Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), was published last week, adding significant ly to history's vindication of President Johnson's action. Its author: John Bartlow Martin, 51, U.S. ambassador to Santo Domingo from 1962 to 1964, and, as Johnson's special envoy...
Ohio-born Martin, a freelance magazine writer for 25 years, and a campaign speechwriter for John F. Kennedy, took perceptive daily notes throughout his diplomatic stint. He was appointed to the Dominican post by Kennedy during the power vacuum that followed the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Martin's near-impossible assignment was to try to establish rudimentary democracy in a land that had known nearly five centuries of despotism. As he bade the ambassador goodbye Kennedy jestingly warned: "If you blow this one, you'd better not come home...
...classic Marxist revolutionary pattern." Francisco Caamano Deno, the rabble-rousing, opportunistic army colonel who led the revolt, was portrayed by New York Times Correspondent Tad Szulc as a well-meaning nationalist. Martin has a slightly different assessment: "I had met no man who I thought might become a Dominican Castro-until I met Caamano. He was winning a revolution from below. He had few political advisers in Santo Domingo at that time but Communists...
...surprising that the Bible de Jérusalem has become something of a standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school...
...makes much of the fact that it is only a hard-trying No. 2. Obviously, No. 1 is the Hertz Corp., with a rental fleet now totaling 125,000 vehicles. Hertz's familiar yellow signs are out in 98 countries, most recently including Finland, New Guinea and the Dominican Republic. Revenues this year will top $300 million...