Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. as his brother's running mate in 1960, President Johnson's performance in cutting Bobby out as a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination in 1964 and the New York Senator's recent speeches implying displeasure with the Administration's policy in the Dominican Republic and its failure to push harder for a treaty against nuclear proliferation. Last week there was another item to add to the list, and this one caught headlines all over...
Heeding Farmer's words, the convention passed a resolution that called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam as well as the Dominican Republic. No sooner had the resolution been approved than Farmer was on his feet, pleading with the delegates to reconsider. CORE, he warned, ran the risk of losing support if it became involved in a peace movement. "Personally," he told the convention, "I am in complete agreement with the resolution. But I think we in CORE should make those decisions as individuals, not as an organization." The resolution was tabled...
Women & Lies. His first chance to show how came in his native Dominican Republic with Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo's 17-year-old daughter Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold). Rubi was only a 22-year-old army captain and palace aide, and the Dominican dictator was not very enthusiastic about the match, but he made his new son-in-law a minor envoy to Berlin and was soon convinced he had done the right thing. "He's an excellent diplomat," exclaimed papa, "because women like him and because he is a liar." Flor de Oro tired of Rubirosa...
...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...
Wednesday night's teach-in will apparently have no administration spokesmen. David A. Smith, one of the organisers of the meeting, said that several faculty members who had been asked to defend U.S. policy in the Far East and in the Dominican Republic had declined for various reasons. He noted that several attempts had been made to attract a State Department speaker to defend administration policy in the Caribbean...