Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...
...basic component of greatness in baseball is longevity. Juan Marichal's skillful assortment of pitches and love of the game ensure his being a 20-game winner for at least another decade. He may not be President of the Dominican Republic by then, but being the mayor of San Francisco...
Shifts & Surprises. After all the overheated debate about Johnson's decision to head off a potential Communist takeover in the Dominican Republic last year, this month's peaceful elections in that country have amply vindicated the American intervention. And U.S. troops in Viet Nam are inflicting the kind of losses that no enemy can sustain indefinitely. Moreover, as the President said at a week's end press conference: "By every evidence available to us, the majority of the people of South Viet Nam seem determined to fight for the right to work out their own affairs. They...
Balaguer, in turn, said that he planned to weed out the worst of the hotheads in khaki. In any case, the two agreed wholeheartedly that the Organization of American States' 8,000-man force should remain in the Dominican Republic until the threat of further trouble blows over. That could be several weeks-or several months...
...cursed, cajoled and wheedled the two rival factions to a truce and, finally, to elections this month. In the process, he won the respect and trust of both sides. "He doesn't see labels," says one Garcia-Godoy aide. "He sees people." Bunker restored U.S. prestige in the Dominican Republic-and throughout Latin America-and made it possible for the U.S. to withdraw gracefully from what a year ago struck many as one of the worst blunders in recent American foreign policy...