Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taft, whose defeat in a Senatorial race last year was generally attributed to the Johnson landslide, said that the President's foreign policy has recently become very Republican. Republicans have supported President Johnson's decisions on Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, he said, while many Democrats favor "a softer approach toward Communist infiltration." Taft said he favored firm opposition to Communist aggression. He suggested that voters might be asked to support Republicans in 1968 to give the President more backing in Congress...
...Tuesday's New York Times report from Santo Domingo is correct, President Johnson has decided to embark on a daring policy reversal in the Dominican Republic. After two weeks of telling the U.S. and Latin America, that the pro-Bosch rebels are Communist-controlled, Johnson has asked Antonio Guzman, a former Bosch aide, to form an interim government...
Nonetheless we are glad the attempt to support a Bosch candidate is being made. We hope that the maneuver is executed with firmness and decision. The price for salvaging the Dominican situation is high, but Johnson's belated morality and realism is better than none...
...M.I.T.'s Keg Auditorium, about 300 students filled only the first few rows Saturday afternoon to watch a broadcast of the teach-in. The sparse crowd cheered the anti-Administration speakers. In the morning at M.I.T several professors from the Boston area had discussed American intervention in the Dominican Republic...
France Disapproves. Indeed, De Gaulle has been busy stirring up mischief all over the world. Having opposed U.S. policy in South Viet Nam all along, last week he called a Cabinet meeting to discuss, among other things, the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, and a spokesman disclosed that "France disapproves and wants the withdrawal of troops who have landed in Santo Domingo." He underscored his virtual withdrawal from SEATO by sending only an observer to last week's SEATO conference in London. Running out of targets, he even took a swipe at Britain's commitment to defend...