Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems intent on continuing -- even expanding and institutionalizing -- the policy of intervention which it applied to the Dominican Republic. At a meeting of the O.A.S. foreign ministers last week, Secretary of State Rusk proposed the formation of a regional "peace-keeping force", an Inter-American army designed to "safeguard the democratic process against totalitarian takeover...
Liberalism was failing, he suggested, because of its marriage to the "corporate system." Pointing to the Dominican crisis. Oglesby ran down a list of U.S. advisers who owned stock in companies with investments in the Dominican Republic--Ellsworth Bunker, Abe Fortas. Adolph Berle, and Averill Harriman's brother...
Once in May and again in August, the conference had to be postponed because of the flaring civil war in the Dominican Republic. Now at last 800 delegates from 19 nations converged on Rio's ancient Hotel Gloria for the Second Special Inter-American Conference of the Organization of American States. The object was to assess the role of the 17-year-old OAS in a rapidly changing hemisphere. And that was something that badly needed doing. "There are several Pandora's boxes here," said an OAS official, "any one of which contains vast numbers of insects...
...applying sanctions against Castro's Cuba. Among other reforms, José A. Mora, the able Uruguayan lawyer who serves as OAS Secretary-General, wants a meeting of foreign ministers at least once a year. "I cannot say that such a meeting might have foreseen or prevented the Dominican crisis," Mora said. "However, had the system provided for an annual conference, the resulting exchange of information would have made for greater awareness and understanding of the impending danger...
...part of the OAS peace-keeping machinery, delegates will also discuss organizing a permanent Inter-American Peace Force, on the order of the temporary force now in the Dominican Republic. Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco made no secret of his views. "We must acknowledge," he told delegates, "the inanity of our wanting collective protection and action without first creating effective machinery for collective decision-making and joint action." This is likely to stir a storm of protest from such ardent defenders of nonintervention as Mexico and Chile...