Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adviser, since it was able to do in approximately 40 words in the first paragraph of your May 28th Nation section what McGeorge Bundy has been unable to do without alienating large segments of American society and of the press-state the aim of Washington with regard to the Dominican Republic, in a simple, sensible manner...
Preoccupied with crisis diplomacy in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic, President Johnson has had little time to think of the rest of the world-including Western Europe, the area of most vital concern to the U.S. Yet no one could doubt that the U.S.'s fences in Europe needed mending, or, at the very least, tending...
COMPARED with most other areas of cold-war conflict, the Dominican Republic is a small country, its civil war a minuscule affair. Yet in the six weeks since the first of 20,500 U.S. Marines and paratroopers landed in Santo Domingo, the Johnson Administration has faced a drumfire of criticism unequaled in range and volume since John F. Kennedy tried and failed to blast Fidel Castro out of power at the Bay of Pigs...
...Dominican crisis, as in the Cuban fiasco, the deepest source of disquiet is the widespread assumption-at home and abroad-that the U.S. intervention marks a return to "gunboat diplomacy." Many persistent critics, particularly in academic circles, further argue that the Administration acted, in fact "overreacted," without provocation; that the rebels in Santo Domingo represent a legitimate democratic revolution. "On the evidence presented so far," wrote Notre Dame History Professor Samuel Shapiro in the Nation, "the Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response...
...people have won the battle against the slavery that a band of Communists wanted to impose on them." Chanting "liberty and dignity," the crowd then marched to el Embajador Hotel, headquarters of the foreign press corps. Many of the marchers carried signs identifying them as Imbert supporters from other Dominican cities. Others carried slogans in English...