Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help administer his program-and promote "national unity"-Balaguer announced a Cabinet that drew on every political shade. He named the secretary-general of Bosch's leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) as his Secretary of Finance, made the vice president of a minor rightist party another Secretary Without Portfolio...
...Domingo's glittering National Palace. U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrived on the run, flushed and hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers. A few moments later, a 21-gun salute pounded out over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have come to make an attempt...
...quite a speech for a onetime Trujillo functionary who had been denounced by Dominican leftists as a tool of the military and of the old Trujillo crowd. But it was only a reflection of the new times and new climate in the Dominican Republic-a climate that was growing ever mellower with the final withdrawal last week of OAS peace-keeping troops...
...made a lieutenant general and named army commander in chief. But as his country's problems piled higher and higher, Onganía gradually lost patience with Illia, particularly after Illia refused to send a contingent of troops to join the OAS force in the Dominican Republic. Last November, in a rare public huff, Onganía resigned. "The real question," as one officer put it prophetically at the time, "is whether Onganía will be more trouble out than...
...elections were over, tempers were cooling, and people were finally talking about something besides politics. So last week, in a meeting at Washington's Pan American Union, the Organization of American States voted 18 to 0 to withdraw the 8,000 OAS peace-keeping troops still in the Dominican Republic. The pull-out will take 90 days and begin before the inauguration of President-elect Balaguer on July...