Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caved in, recalled the assault force and told its charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince to "resume normal diplomatic relations." The Haitian radio crowed of Duvalier's "triumph of statesmanship," and Papa Doc sent his goons to raze a two-mile strip along the Dominican border to halt the stream of political refugees fleeing his corrupt and bloody regime...
...Commandos have sent training missions to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Mali, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador and El Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
...successfully only when the civilians are in sympathy with them. To win loyalty from native populations and make guerrilla warfare less likely, Air Commandos and Special Forces help truck drinking water into slum areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, fly medical teams into rural Bolivia, build roads and schools in the Dominican Republic. Most such projects are in Latin America...
...most of Duvalier's Latin American neighbors were outraged, but helpless so long as Duvalier and his bloody, graft-ridden regime held power, with the help of his cocky Tonton Macoute hoodlums. The neighboring Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, had threatened to invade Haiti unless Duvalier granted safe-conduct to 23 refugees who had taken asylum at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. Duvalier obligingly granted safe-conduct to 20 of the 23, and Dominican President Juan Bosch pulled back some of his troops from the border...
These include dormitories for Brazilian and Swiss students in University City outside Paris, a new museum of modern French art in Tokyo, the pilgrimage church of Notre Dame de Ronchamp, and a convent for the Dominican Order at La Tourette, near Lyon...