Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidential Orders. The troops -two battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...
...stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican Republic from plunging into a bloody replay of last April's civil...
...Terror. That there was no full-scale fighting was due largely to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker, the tall, white-haired OAS negotiator and chief architect of the tenuous Dominican truce. In an eleventh-hour session at the National Palace, Bunker strongly reminded Garcia-Godoy that alienating the military was hardly the way to run a government of reconciliation. He got the President, and later Rivera Caminero, to agree on the pacification of Santo Domingo through a house-to-house arms search by military, police and civilian teams. Garcia-Godoy then ordered OAS troops into the rebel area to make...
Since then, Catholic theologians have been divided between "two-source" adherents and those who argue that tradition is nothing more than the church's living, unfolding interpretation and explication of the Bible. France's great Dominican theologian Yves Congar argues that "there is no Christian truth which is not connected with Scripture" -a view similar to traditional Protestant teaching...
...official reported that the Selden Proposal (passed by the House to justify multi-lateral intervention in South America wherever there is evidence of Communist subversion) had brought more complaints from the Latins than the Dominican Republic crisis...