Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dying Congress was not only rough on the Democrats, it also deliberately defied President Eisenhower. After the 21 nation Organization of American States condemned Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic for aggression and called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican sugar to the U.S. The Senate obligingly voted unrestricted authority to the President, but the House capriciously insisted that he would have to wait until the OAS members formally invoked sanctions. In a schizoid mood, neither House nor Senate would budge, and the new sugar bill died with the Congress...
Atlantic. Presumably, too, Khrushchev's new-found friends in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba's Castro and Dominican Dictator Trujillo, would also make in-person appearances at the U.N. And Nikita blandly allowed that he thought "it would be good" if President Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan also put in an appearance...
Having at long last decided to regard Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo as an unworthy ally, the U.S. last week set about doing everything it could to bring him down. The U.S. hopes to convince Latin American neighbors that it disapproves as much of dictatorships of the right as dictators of the left-a first step in winning support against Castro...
Four days after 21 Latin American nations, gathered in Costa Rica, voted to break diplomatic relations with Trujillo and impose economic sanctions against the Dominican dictatorship, the U.S. moved to comply. The OAS agreed on an embargo on arms sales to Trujillo; the U.S., which had long been embargoing the arms, went further. President Eisenhower sent Congress a message requesting permission to take back the 322,000 tons of canceled Cuban sugar quota assigned to the Dominican Republic last July...
Russians Move In. Two days later the Administration formally broke off diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic. In inviting Trujillo's retaliation, the U.S. may be jeopardizing its missile-tracking station on the island and private investments worth $150 million. Moreover, if the sanctions topple Trujillo, he may be succeeded by another Castro...