Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third wife is the daughter of Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman, the Kennedys' neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla. Such weight did he swing that he was instrumental in having Diplomat Robert D. Murphy sent on a secret White House mission in 1961 to listen to the laments of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, then wilting under U.S. sanctions. Naturally, Igor tagged along, too. But now the private line is disconnected. In Washington, a federal grand jury indicted Igor for failing to register as a highly paid agent (sharing fees estimated at $200,000) of the deposed Trujillo...
...largely self-educated Bosch left the Dominican Republic in 1937, disgusted with Trujillo after "The Benefactor" personally ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian squatters. With Cuba as a headquarters, Bosch organized his political party, traveled widely throughout Latin America as an unofficial emissary of the anti-Communist left...
...People. After Trujillo was assassinated, Bosch went home, not to promote a revolution, but to run for President. He turned his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a peasants' and workers' party, proclaimed himself the candidate of the havenots, promised to distribute 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio...
...South Bend, Ind., prep school last week, Bosch hopes to make his return by way of Washington for a visit with President Kennedy. The U.S. has already come through with $48 million worth of aid, plus a contingent of Peace Corpsmen and technical advisers. But the Dominican Republic still needs more. Encouraged by the orderly election results. U.S. officials are in a mood to help...
...that in practice "religion is just an irrelevancy in the lives of many people?the great majority." Gloomy Christian theologians are fond of speaking of a post-Christian age?the Christian Church estranged from modern society. "We need a theology of the 20th, or even the 21st century," says Dominican Dominique Dubarle, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris...