Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Different Packages. Welding those ties into something really strong will take a staggering amount of work and imagination. It means selling the idea of constitutional government, for example, to men like a leader in the Dominican Republic who gives this rationale of Latin American politics: "There are only three ways to handle people in Latin America: kill them, jail them or have drinks with them. I prefer the latter, but I am not averse to either of the former if it cannot be avoided." It means selling tax reforms to the wealthy, deeply entrenched oligarchs like the Brazilian industrialist...
After his indictment as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, he lost his job as the New York Journal American's syndicated society gossip; his wife committed suicide; and his public relations firm collapsed. Even so, ruled a Washington, D.C., judge, the law is clear, and he sentenced Igor Cassini to six months on probation, fined...
...Sourire, who zipped to the top of the record heap with Dominique. But Soeur Sourire shies away from her success. So Good Roman Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said TV's top impresario. "They ran the show." The fee? "No money," said the Mother Prioress, "but we have a mission in the Congo. Would it be possible to send...
...weeks, bands of Castroite guerrillas have been roaming the Dominican hills, waging a hit-and-run war against the three-man junta that rules the Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
Last week the Dominican armed forces claimed an important victory over the rebels and announced the death of the Castroites' leader. After days of searching, troops moved in on a gathering of guerillas at a sawmill near the town of San José de las Matas in the central mountains. When the shooting ended, Manuel Tavárez Justo, 35, avowed Marxist and admirer of Castro, was dead, along with 14 of his comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that...