Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mexico's oles sounded all the sweeter in view of Washington's assumption that U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic had tarnished Johnson's image south of the border, that he could never hope to gain the affection and instinctive trust that Latin Americans awarded President Kennedy. With scant advance notice, Johnson drew crowds only slightly smaller than those Kennedy received on a long-planned visit in 1962. "Who said we couldn't go to Latin America?" demanded Johnson. "Who said the Dominican Republic disgraced...
While just about everyone wants an election in the Dominican Republic, the fear has persisted that the campaign preceding it might only intensify the hatreds that lie just beneath the surface. Last week, with all three major candidates entered in the field and the election only six weeks away, the Dominicans were acting with unaccustomed calm. All the parties seemed ready to abide by the election results, and even the military promised the winner full cooperation. The campaign was conspicuously subdued. Even the memory of Santo Domingo's violent fighting and demonstrations was quietly receding...
...faith on the art, politics and even economics of a culture, unconsciously made God part of that culture?and when the world changed, belief in this God was undermined. Now "God has disappeared because of the image of him that the church used for many, many ages," says Dominican Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx...
...Singing Nun. Soeur Sourire-Sister Smile-was what she called her self, that serene Belgian nun who two years ago sang the affectedly unaffected song, Dominique, that made her an Ed Sullivan celebrity and brought windfall wealth to her Dominican community...
...spring of 1965 he served as chief of the U.S. Emergency Relief Mission in the Dominican Republic...