Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word and deed, just such a policy. John Kennedy emphatically stated after the Bay of Pigs fiasco that he would not let the doctrine of nonintervention in the affairs of other hemisphere nations excuse inaction in the face of Communist aggression. Lyndon Johnson restated the policy during the Dominican crisis: "We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere...
Neither the White House nor the State Department raised any objections when Selden began hearings on his resolution, perhaps because it amounted to a warm endorsement of U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic, which has lately been attacked by Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright. Privately, most Latin American ambassadors in Washington also found it unobjectionable; a TIME correspondent polled 19 of them, found 15 in favor. With Latin diplomats, however, private preference and public position are often poles apart. Belatedly, the White House realized that many of the same Latins who privately approved the resolution would publicly damn...
...hunt is on for the scalp of William Fulbright. Senator Dodd has attacked him. Senator Long has attacked him. Senator Lausche has attacked him. Senator Russell has attacked him. The House has voted a resolution which indirectly censures his critique of military intervention in the Dominican Republic. And, according to Joseph Kraft's column in Monday's Globe, a piqued Administration is doing nothing to shield the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee from right-wing flak: "On the contrary, the Administration is itself holding the anti-communist issue in reverse as a rod to dissident members of its majority...
...congress was cautious on Vietnam, it was daring on other foreign policy issues. The delegates unreservedly condemned the American intervention in the Dominican Republic and asked the U.S. to "initiate and support any action authorized by international law to bring an end to the policy of apartheid in South Africa and South West Africa, not excluding collective military action...
...week for 60 newspapers. Her fame has been growing ever since 1963, when she moved from the defunct New York Daily Mirror to the New York Journal-American, where she replaced Cholly Knickerbocker, who had been indicted by the U.S. for failing to register as an agent of the Dominican Republic...