Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days went by, the news out of Santo Domingo grew more and more ominous. By midweek it was clear that the bloody uprisings in the Dominican Republic had become the week's major story. Although the situation was confused, the editors decided that the cover subject should be the Dominican general who was most responsible for asking the U.S. to come...
...decision set in motion a widely based team of TIME staffers. Notable among them were Caribbean Correspondent Richard Duncan and veteran Santo Domingo Stringer Bernard Diederich, who was on a brief assignment in New York. The two flew to Puerto Rico, and since all civilian access to the Dominican Republic was closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer...
Turbulence and bloody conflict embraced the U.S. from two far-flung fronts. One was the old and ugly war in South Viet Nam 6,500 miles away; the other was a raw, new and unexpected rebellion in the Dominican Republic, 600 miles off U.S. shores (see THE HEMISPHERE). On both fronts, President Lyndon Johnson last week acted swiftly with strength of purpose...
...Beneficent Intuition. Fully aware that another Communist island fortress, like Cuba, could sprout in the Caribbean, the President snapped into action at the first sporadic crackles of gunfire in Santo Domingo. Into the waters off the Dominican Republic, he ordered a task force of six ships carrying an assault detachment of 1,800 marines; as a contingency, he alerted Army airborne troops at Fort Bragg...
Members of the Faculty will discuss recent events in the Dominican Republic in relation to the situation in Vietnam, and debate possible alternatives...