Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was only his latest clash with authority. The Czechs expelled him for his enterprising reporting in 1968. Lyndon Johnson denounced him for his skeptical stories about the rationale for the Dominican intervention. Kissinger's sentiments are not on record but can hardly be affectionate...
...resolution was originally proposed by Venezuela in protest against a militant program by Castro and his Minister of Industry, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, of exporting Communist revolution throughout Latin America. Cuban arms and Cuban-trained guerrillas turned up in the 1960s in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But after 1967, when Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Castro muted his once proclaimed role as the "Líder de las Americas. " Today few hemisphere leaders worry that the Cuban dictator will try to interfere in their internal affairs...
...heavy-handed in his use of American power abroad. The Senator was one of the few to warn John Kennedy against trying to topple Fidel Castro by landing rebels at the Bay of Pigs, and he opposed the armed intervention by Lyndon Johnson into the confused affairs of the Dominican Republic...
Married. Mary Wilson, 30, only original member still singing with the Supremes, extraordinary exemplars of the "Motown Sound"; and Pedro Antonio Ferrer, 30, the group's Dominican-born road manager; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...feast of St. Nicholas in 1273, Italian Dominican Friar Thomas Aquinas entered a chapel in Naples to say Mass before beginning a day of lecturing and writing. During the Mass, something profound happened to him: some kind of physical or nervous breakdown, perhaps accompanied by an overpowering mystical vision. Afterward, he ceased dictating his theological masterwork, the Summa Theologiae. "All that I have written," he explained to concerned friends, "seems to me like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me." He never wrote another line. Three months later-700 years ago last month-he died...