Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both the Dominican and Vietnamese wars, much of the mistrust of U.S. policy is related to the belief held by many intellectuals that the Communist threat would disappear if the free world would only quit fighting it. Some Americans, said Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy after returning from Santo Domingo, seem to think that "the bear will turn into a golden retriever if only we treat him that way." Bundy argued pointedly: "There is in many-and perhaps especially among those whose concern is for ideas and ideals, and those whose hope is primarily for peace and progress-a reluctance...
...response in Santo Domingo may thus be the development of an effective, permanent, regional peace-keeping force along the lines of the multinational OAS expedition that has now formally taken over from the U.S. As for Washington's initial intervention, no one can yet prove conclusively that the Dominican Republic would have become the hemisphere's second Communist state if the U.S. had not sent in troops. The fact remains that no responsible U.S. Administration facing a risk of this magnitude could have afforded to act otherwise-for the stability of the hemisphere or for the peace...
...fight to the finish against Caamaño. He was still grumbling, and so were his officers, who were itching to clean out the rebels. But after days of talk with OAS Secretary-General Jose Mora, Imbert at last agreed that a bloodbath was hardly the answer to the Dominican Republic's ills, accepted an OAS plan to hold new elections, possibly within the next two to three months...
Marines will, in effect, install a new Dominican government which will be permeated with Communists at all levels. -Columnist William F. Buckley...
...hour-long CBS special news report was offered as an analysis in depth of the Dominican revolution. And from the start there was no question about the depth of the reporters' feelings. "In an era in which the U.S. would like to be in the position of clasping hands with Latin Americans," intoned Moderator Charles Kuralt, "we are in the position of frisking them instead. After signing with ceremony solemn covenants in which we promised not to intervene in other nations of this hemi sphere, we are today intervening in the very kitchens and sitting rooms...