Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even Johnson had a legal memorandum on the Dominican Republic, but apparently the President thinks that is old hat," he said...
...election crisis reflects the deeply ingrained Dominican worry about continuismo-the Latin American habit of hanging on to power. Just a year ago, Balaguer was publicly pooh-poohing questions about a second term, saying that "only a plebiscite of gigantic proportions" could make him run again. But more and more it appears that the bachelor President is harking back to the example of his old boss, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who carefully orchestrated elections during his 31-year rule. Under Trujillo, Balaguer served briefly as a puppet President...
...polarized. The wondrously wide-gauged group that served the ultimatum includes Vice President Francisco Lora, who quit Balaguer's Reformist Party over the re-election issue; ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin, the rightist soldier who tried unsuccessfully to crush the 1965 revolution, and the P.R.D. (Dominican Revolutionary Party), which started it. The leftist, urban-oriented P.R.D., Balaguer's chief opposition, has been making headway with charges that Balaguer's police and troops -who he admits are difficult to control -have been reviving old-style political killings and repression. Last week police machine-gunned striking...
...Dominican Republic, six smartly uniformed guerrillas seized a U.S. air attaché, Lieut. Colonel Donald J. Crowley, 47, from the very polo field in Santo Domingo where the first U.S. Marines were helicoptered in during the 1965 intervention. Crowley's kidnapers threatened to kill him unless the government of President Joaquin Balaguer released 24 prisoners. After two days of haggling, the government placed 20 prisoners aboard an aircraft bound for Mexico City, and the kidnapers released Crowley blindfolded from an automobile. He was still wearing the riding boots, khaki pants and white jersey he had worn 21 days earlier...
...administrations, the "Nixon Doctrine" declares that the U.S. will support its allies with air power, money and equipment. But it also says that, except in Europe, the U.S. will be slower and less likely to intervene on the ground in local emergencies than it was in Lebanon or the Dominican Republic. The National Security Council's still-secret outline of future American strategy, NSSM-3, sees the U.S. ultimately as a Pacific power only...