Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant plant geneticist whose hybridizations left his fellow Americans with infinitely improved strains of corn, juicier, hardier strawberries, and hens that would lay more eggs on less feed. Only last March he was in the Dominican Republic trying to introduce strawberries as a badly needed cash crop...
...facts" the President Johnson promised the American people, when he sent troops to the Dominican Republic, still lie in the locked files of the State Department and the Senate. The President has refused to release the testimony his own officials gave to Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee last summer. Hoping to keep that record secret, he has also withheld the State Department's white paper on the same subject...
...tension in Rhodesia by bloodshed. Britain itself with American support, the Commonwealth, and--above all--the United Nations must all strive to achieve an equitable solution. The crisis demands resolute action; trigger-happy recklessness--even in the cause of freedom--is just as reprehensible in Rhodesia and in the Dominican Republic...
...experience of the civil war in the Dominican Republic shows how much trouble a group of well-prepared Castroites can cause when given such an opportunity. At the OAS foreign ministers meeting in Rio next week, a prime topic will be what kind of armed response the hemisphere should organize to meet the threat of Castroites waiting to capitalize on weakened governments. The suggestions will range from a permanent multilateral peacekeeping OAS force to a more limited group of volunteer countries that would establish a strike force for emergencies. With continuing Castroite subversion in prospect, those emergencies seem sure...
After covering World War II in the South Pacific, Dickey showed up just about everywhere men were shooting at each other: Korea, Hungary, Kashmir, Cuba, Algeria, the Dominican Republic. She traced her interest in battle to her quiet childhood in Milwaukee, where, as she recalled in her autobiography, What's a Woman Doing Here?, she was taught "that violence in any form is unthinkable. It was so unthinkable that it became as attractive a mystery to me as sex seemed to be to other teen-agers...