Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thompson more generally sells its talents to. There's a logic to the slickness. Like the other armed forces, the Marines have been used in recent years primarily for protecting large American capitalists from the threat of democratic government in the rest of the world, from Indochina to the Dominican Republic, where Marines overthrew a freely elected government...
Jack Kubisch, an expert on Brazil who worked with Kissinger in Paris during the Viet Nam truce negotiations, was named Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. John Crimmins, a former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was posted to Brazil; John Jova, a former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, was assigned to Mexico. Earlier this month, Kissinger flew to Panama to initial an agreement that promised to remove one of the most emotionally charged irritants in hemisphere relations-continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal...
...movie's most articulate critics is Dominican Father Richard Woods, a young expert on occultism at Chicago's Loyola University who recently published a book called The Devil (Thomas More Press). Woods encountered 23 cases of people who thought they were possessed by the devil after reading The Exorcist; he now fears another wave of hysteria from moviegoers. "The movie is going to cause so many pastoral problems I wish they had never made it." Beyond that, argues Woods, the film never really grapples with the problem of evil. "The devil's true work is temptation...
...Brazil increases its exports, it is now looking to other less-developed Latin American countries to provide markets, sources of raw materials, and sub-spheres of political influence. Brazil was the only country to send troops to support U.S. marines in the Dominican Republic in 1965. Brazil gave aid and material support in 1971 to General Hugo Banzer's Bolivia. Brazil's interests in Bolivia include one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world and natural gas and petroleum deposits. General Stroessner, recently elected president of Paraguay, signed a treaty in May 1973 with Brazil rather than...
...would not happen in industrializing, urbanizing nations. Revolutions were a "disease" which afflicted peasant societies. They believed that the proper innoculation was rapid economic growth. This was the theory behind the Alliance for Progress--the United States would still intervene militarily when it saw its interests threatened--Cuba, 1961, Dominican Republic, 1965--but armed force was only one of a two-edged sword. Economic aid and investment, the other edge, would finance the construction of factories and cities, give birth to stable urban working and middle classes, and thereby reduce the threat to U.S. domination of the country posed...