Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President has not usurped the Constitution. The balance of power in foreign affairs has always been a political rather than a legal creation, and the Congress is simply taking a more active political role. It now resents the fait accomplis of military intervention-as in the Dominican Republic-which it has felt compelled to rubber stamp. Most encouraging of all. Congress has been willing to use its ultimate prerogative, the power of the purse, to block expansion of the war into Thailand and Laos. The fear that foreign policy is being made at the Pentagon, implicit in the Senate...
...problems. And it does so in a cool tone that allows realism to outweigh verbal flourishes. Nixon emphasizes not isolation, but rather more credible involvement. Thus he takes a qualified step back from the doctrine of almost automatic intervention in hemispheric affairs that drew the Johnson Administration into the Dominican Republic, a giant step from John Kennedy's rhetorical commitment to intervene anywhere in defense of liberty. Moreover, he abandons the belief, which he himself once held, that the world, threatened by a monolithic Communist bloc, must rely on U.S. military and economic power for survival...
...right to threaten war if the Russians try to take over West Berlin. It is all right to send Marines to the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover. It is all right to wage an endless war to make sure that the authoritarian North Vietnamese don't get the better of the corrupt and grafting South Vietnamese...
...fiesta Masses coming out of our ears. My God, what they needed was doctors, medicine, technical help. We weren't helping. We were giving them a piece of bread." Hudepohl thinks that the sheer numbers of religious in exodus may change Catholicism; his wife Nancy, who was a Dominican nun for ten years, is more pessimistic: "The church has nothing to say to people...
...Pepe" Figueres-sometimes called El Enano (the dwarf) because he stands only 5 ft. 3 in.-is the grand old man of Latin America's democratic left. In the small band of democratic reformers (including Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt. the Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Peru's Raul Haya de la Torre) who only recently seemed to be Latin America's best hope for nonviolent change, he remains one of the few effective survivors...