Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another nun at Belgium's Ficher-mont Convent once said of Sister Luc-Gabrielle: "She's well adapted to the Dominican life." So it seemed as she puttered around the convent farm, ignoring the outside world, where her Singing Nun album (originally recorded as a souvenir for girls who came on retreats) competed with the platters of Bobby Darin and Paul Anka. But at some point she decided that her vocation may be secular after all. The convent announced that she has left to live outside Brussels, where, now 38, she will resume her former name of Janine...
...Banana. To succeed Thompson as ambassador at large, Johnson named Ellsworth Bunker, 72, a courtly, tough-minded troubleshooter. It was Bunker's Yankee courage and persistence, above all, that brought peace and honest elections to the Dominican Republic in 1966 after its acrid civil war. As an envoy of the Organization of American States, the tall, white-haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration...
...America Director and onetime NBC Correspondent John Chancellor, "but television is the transmission of experience in its rawest form." Putting the pageantry of a Kennedy or a Churchill funeral into countless living rooms, is an achievement that the most moving newspaper description cannot duplicate; the sight of a young Dominican being shot in the back by a U.S. paratrooper can jolt the home viewer far more than any account of the same tragedy in print...
Learning that some right-wing officers were scheming to bring Wessin back, Balaguer denounced the plot on television, though carefully absolving Wessin of any complicity. He then appointed Wessin an alternate Dominican delegate to the U.N. with the rank of ambassador, and ordered Wessin's old autonomous outfit at San Isidro airbase to be divided among other units throughout the country. Furthermore, Balaguer ordered a reorganization of the military so that "the barracks can no longer be used as a springboard" for political activities. So far, the military has accepted the President's orders without any visible signs...
...fact, the Dominican Republic last week seemed so peaceful that plans were going ahead for the final withdrawal of the Inter-American Peace Force by next week. Some Dominicans feared that the withdrawal would trigger a coup by leftists, by the military, or both. Balaguer evidently did not share that fear. Besides, he knew that if anything did happen, peace-force troops could be recalled within hours...