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Direct intervention, on the order of the Dominican Republic operation of 1965, would seriously undermine the U.S.'s already low prestige in the hemisphere. In any case, it would probably be ruled out by geography. Santiago is 5,000 air miles from Washington; the country as a whole is cordoned off from the world by the Andes on one side and the Pacific on the other. Direct action is out, and the U.S. has little indirect leverage to apply. Cut off aid? This year's total, $2,500,000 in loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic...
...situations, because the Russians have achieved virtual nuclear parity with the U.S. The old way of achieving political goals through economic aid is still important but increasingly ineffective in countries stirred up to a new nationalist pitch. Precise and quick military intervention (as in Lebanon in 1958 and the Dominican Republic in 1965) can never be ruled out, but is much harder to bring off now largely because of the fears stirred by Viet...
APRIL 1967: A terrorist in the Dominican Republic celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. intervention by hurling a grenade at an American schoolteacher and killing...
...Presidents almost since the Republic began. But the device has become increasingly popular since World War II. Harry Truman made use of it to send U.S. forces into Korea in 1950; Dwight Eisenhower dispatched the Marines into Lebanon under it in 1958; Lyndon Johnson employed it to invade the Dominican Republic-and to expand the U.S. presence in Viet...
Back in the Dominican Republic, hardly anyone ever thought that Ricardo Adolfo Jacabo Carty would even make it to the majors. "They put me in left field when I was a kid," he recalls, "and the ball went over my head. They put me to catch, and the ball went behind me." One thing Rico could always do, though, was "heet the ball." That is what impressed major league scouts when, at 18, Carty came to the U.S. to play in the Pan American Games. Unable to speak a word of English, he was quick to give his autograph...