Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long the lid will stay on the troubled Dominican Republic. Since Dictator Rafael Trujillo died in a fusillade of assassins' bullets in 1961, the country has had four coups and seven governments. Thus on past form alone, the country's new President Joaquín Balaguer, 59, could not be expected to last very long. But last week, after his first 21 months in office, some of the cynics who had predicted his early downfall were having second thoughts...
...President selected his Cabinet from the lists of all major moderate parties and adopted several opposition bills for his own legislative program. His main concern has been to revive the shattered economy by reducing official salaries and reining in government spending. For the first time in 16 months, the Dominican Republic this month will meet its expenses without turning to the U.S. for assistance...
Above Control. The Dominican military, which long considered itself above civilian control, last week felt the touch of Balaguer's authority. The military man in question was Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, whose elite troops had initially turned back the rebels in Santo Domingo, but whose continued presence had so disrupted peace negotiations that the U.S. hustled him out of the country last September...
...their violent revolutionary line in favor of the via pacifica, which calls for subtle infiltration of Latin American governments and cooperation with other leftist parties in United Fronts. For another, Communist subversion during the past year has suffered severe setbacks in three major target countries-Peru, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Still, in other places Communist operations are neither very pacifica nor subtle. Items...
With Kennedy's death, Johnson was thrust into a foreign policy maelstrom. In two years, he had to cope with riots in Panama, civil war in Cyprus, massacre in the Congo, killing in Kashmir, sag in the Alliance for Progress, Gaullism in NATO, chaos in the Dominican Republic, and above all, Viet Nam. Johnson said that he felt himself "in the position of a jack rabbit in a hailstorm, hunkered up and taking it." He also had to listen to a lot of contradic tory advice from his lieutenants. The President once petulantly complained that "the Air Force comes...