Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was plainly reaching for political respectability. Clad in diplomatic cutaway, silk tie and striped trousers, he had clinked champagne glasses earlier this month with Warren R. Austin, chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations, during Austin's Caribbean tour. Before Austin left the Dominican Republic, the 400-year-old University of Santo Domingo gave him an honorary degree...
Trujillo argued persuasively that all the trouble in his part of the world was due to the tireless intrigues of Dominican, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan exiles, plotting with the Cuban, Guatemalan, Haitian, Costa Rican and Mexican governments to oust...
Other countries with such facilities are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany (American, British, and French zones), Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Israel...
Other countries with such facilities are: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany (American, British, and French zones), Greece, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Israel...
...O.A.S., the Dominicans did their best to becloud the issue by dragging in their old charges against Cuba and Guatemala, demanding that the O.A.S. investigate them, too. Cried Dominican Ambassador Joaquin Salazar (whose country boasts the Caribbean's most impressive war machine): "We suffer from a permanent state of aggression!" Council members snickered, but agreed to let him have his say. In the boiling Caribbean, they felt, there could be no such thing as too much investigation...