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...ideals remain significant even though the contingencies of the real world sometimes force the U.S. and other countries to ignore them. France helped overthrow Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Republic in 1979, for example, and the U.S. played a role in deposing the governments of Guatemala (1954), the Dominican Republic (1965) and Chile...
...emerges from San Francisco's Sacred Heart convent in shorts and T shirt and jogs for a minimum often miles. But for Sister Marion Irvine, 54, her 5½ years of long-distance running is more than just healthy outreach to the postwimple age. Last December, the Dominican nun covered the 26-mile 385-yard course at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2:51.01. Thus by a scant .15 sec., she qualified for the Olympic trials, the oldest woman in the world to make the grade. Sister Marion is now training with her coach to compete...
...DOMINICAN Republic, for example, exports nearly two thirds of its food, while malnutrition decimates the population. Infant mortality is a stunning 10 percent of live births, and half of the survivors suffer malnutrition. (Gulf & Western, a chief exporter of Dominican agricultural goods, is doing quite well...
...words L.B.J. used to justify the involvement-"to insure the safety of innocent people, to restore normal conditions and to open a path to democratic process"-were almost the same as Reagan's last week. Yet the comparison is not quite apt: the intervention in the Dominican Republic was not exactly an invasion, because the troops had been requested by the military authorities ostensibly in control of that Caribbean country. In fact, never before in this century have U.S troops actually invaded a country to fight against a ruling government...
Even so, the Dominican Republic incident provoked an undercurrent of resentment in Latin America that helped spell the end of the Alliance for Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake...