Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, Peru's Manuel Prado, Guatemala's Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, Ecuador's Carlos Arosemena, Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Honduras' Ramén Villeda Morales...
...publicly deplores military takeovers in Latin American countries, but if they last, invariably winds up dealing with the new governments. Last week, after a two-month wait, the State Department formally resumed diplomat ic relations with Honduras and the Dominican Republic, whose constitution al Presidents were ousted by military coup. Honduras, poor even by Central American standards, desperately needs Alliance for Progress aid ($4.2 million in fiscal 1963). Recognition of the Dominican Republic will enable the U.S. to keep a closer eye on a potentially dangerous Castroite guerrilla flare-up there. The soldiers running the two countries made only distant...
...encourage the development of a modern industrial society. The charter of the Alliance states specifically that unless development takes place along well-defined democratic lines, no United States funds will be forth-coming. Cuba has been excluded from the Alliance since its inception, and aid to Honduras and the Dominican Republic has been suspended until they re-establish constitutional governments. If such policies are to continue, the disbursement of funds must remain essentially an American function...
...r.p.m. single. One side is called Dominique, and it has taken off like a grass fire. U.S. teen-agers are mad for the singing nun, even though Dominique is in French, and few are aware that the song lauds the virtues of the founder of the Dominican order. More than 400,000 have sold in three weeks, and the full Singing Nun album, thus primed, has now sold...
...common sense. She is an odd competitor for the Bobby Darins and the Paul Ankas, as anyone would agree who could see her in her heavy shoes and grey apron with a big knife cleaning sugar beets on the convent farm. "She's wonderfully well adapted to Dominican life," says a fellow sister who acts as her manager. "She's very joyful, and holy joy is the principal trait St. Dominic wanted to infuse in his order...