Word: dominican
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...export was a sort of Who's Who of the Dominican crisis. Commodore Francisco J. Rivera Caminero, Armed Forces Secretary and head of the loyalist military, was slated to be naval attache to Washington. Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, head of the 1,400-man rebel force, was named military attaché to London; Colonel Manuel Ramón Montes Arache, Caamaño's top aide, naval attaché to Ottawa; General Juan de los Santos Céspedes, current air force chief of staff, air attaché to Israel. Twenty-two more army...
...feuding" with Johnson, Fulbright insists: "I couldn't stand to go to all those banquets." In fact, Fulbright is off Johnson's guest list because the President resents the Senator's criticism of Administration foreign policy. Fulbright has not only castigated the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic as "a grievous mistake" but of late has also publicly criticized the deepening American involvement in Viet...
There are few optimists in the Dominican Republic; many Dominicans have resigned themselves to the grim prospect of never seeing real peace in their lifetime. Last week, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering and the best intentions of Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, the visceral hatred between rebel left and loyalist right exploded in yet another ugly little fire fight and a series of riots and demonstrations that left 34 dead, scores wounded. Once again, only the forceful intervention of OAS troops kept the tiny war-scarred country from renewed civil...
...telephone and called for help from President García-Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
This consensus, Reid adds, acknowledged the insights of thinkers who, before the council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those...