Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT WENT WRONG IN SANTO DOMINGO? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A CBS News Special on the events leading up to the crisis in the Dominican Republic, with appearances by former President Juan Bosch, Rebel Leader Francisco Caamaño Deñó and U.S. Special Envoy John Bartlow Martin...
Basic U.S. policy in the Dominican Republic is simple. It is to prevent a Castro-style takeover in the Caribbean. Its ultimate aim is to set up a representative, constitutional government excluding extremists, from Trujilloists on the right to Reds on the left...
Quicksand. In tactical terms, patchwork is about the only plausible pursuit for the U.S. in the Dominican Republic. So corrosive is the hatred between the opposing Dominican forces that there is no middle ground. Yet the military middle ground is what 20,500 U.S. paratroopers and marines now hold, getting shot at from both sides, and the political middle ground is what the U.S. seeks, while suffering polemic potshots from around the world...
...nation's press supported Johnson's intervention. Said the Chattanooga Times: "President Johnson took a bold step, one fraught with difficulties and even dangers, but he had the same solid reason of which Mr. Kennedy spoke -the security of our nation." Agreed the Chicago Daily News: "The Dominican rebellion forced President Johnson to decide whether the Western Hemisphere was threatened by another Cuba. He decided it was. Let those who did not have his information or responsibility decide that he was wrong; that is the luxury of the spectator...
...from South Viet Nam, last week acknowledged that a U.S. military buildup in the area of Danang would help the U.S. in any future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order in its own backyard. "The Dominican Republic lies squarely within the sphere of influence of the U.S., and it is normal for a great power to insist...