Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOMINICAN REPUBLIC...
...Hearing that the visitor to her sunbaked village was the top man in the Dominican Republic, an old woman instinctively shouted, "Viva el generalisimo!" Donald Reid Cabral, 41, chief of the country's governing junta, turned and smiled wryly. "Madam," he replied, "I am not even a private...
...they refuse to worry about tax dodgers. "We cannot act as a policeman for foreign governments," argues Schaefer. He says that his bank provides numbered accounts only for people known to its officers-"not Al Capones or South American generals" -and that it turned down deposits from the Dominican Republic's ousted Trujillo family. But he allows that "not all banks in Switzerland apply the same standards...
...this, of course, was subject to agreement by the Vatican. But of that there seemed little doubt, since the World Council proposal had been approved in principle by the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity during six months of secret discussion last year. Said French Dominican Theologian Jérome Hamer, one of Rome's official observers at Enugu: "Beyond all doubt, this is a step forward...
...some qualities that any theology of the future must have. It will be ecumenical. "Renewal is the invitation to a common task," says the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng. "Everything today is interdependent." It will be existential. "Theology is overdeveloped in systems and arguments," says French Dominican Pierre Liege, "and not rich enough in concrete applications to existential problems. As it progresses, it will turn more to the questions of the significance of human life and the application of the Christian message to the existential circumstance." It will also be open to the insights of science...