Word: dominican
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...attempts to starve out its enemies have hardly been more successful. Washington tried to topple Dictator Rafael Trujillo by refusing to buy Dominican sugar and cutting off his supply of oil and auto parts. But it was an assassin's bullet, not dollar pressure, that brought him down. Cuba's Fidel Castro, with massive support from Russia, has managed to survive six years of U.S. embargo. U.S. pressure to cut off all trade with Red China was another notable flop: Canada alone in the past six years has sold Peking a whopping $926 million worth of wheat...
...been obtained with evidence illegally gathered by electronic eavesdropping, the Justice Department was reviewing all federal cases in which bugging might have been used. Lawyers argued that evidence against former Senate Aide Bobby Baker had been gathered by electronic devices; officials admitted that the FBI has been bugging the Dominican embassy since the 1950s; the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of a New York state law that permits police to bug suspects with court approval. And even as the debate raged over the moral and legal implications of electronic bugs, the bugs themselves were growing more versatile...
...five Senators to oppose tabling Wayne Morse's motion to repeat the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution which authorizes all necessary measures to repel North Vietnamese aggression. Along with his colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, McCarthy has attacked American foreign policy in Latin America--particularly in the Dominican Republic. In addition, he has been trying for years to launch an investigation into the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency and to obtain greater Congressional control of its activities...
...wears nylons and smokes an occasional cigarette, but Soeur Sourire still feels the effects of the cloister even though she has left the Dominican convent outside Brussels to pursue a secular career as a pop singer. "I am not yet ready to face audiences," smiled Janine Deckers, 38, the singing nun who now goes by the name of Luc-Dominique. So when she embarks early next year on a tour of the U.S., Sister Smile will probably do most of her singing on taped TV shows...
...ultimate vindication of the U.S. involvement came six weeks ago, when the last American soldier pulled out of the Dominican Republic. By then, the people had held a free and fair election, and had a new constitutional regime that has brought the nation a measure of stability...