Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Duvalier's men and the emboldened opposition, and dark rumors of many deaths. Diplomatically, the arguments turned on the safety of 103 Haitians who had taken asylum at Latin American embassies in the capital, and had not been permitted safe conduct out of the country. In the neighboring Dominican Republic, President Juan Bosch threatened military action unless the refugees in the Dominican embassy were allowed to leave Haiti. Dominican and Haitian troops faced each other across the dirt road that cuts through the green hills along the border. Under such pressure Duvalier finally relented and at week...
...Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, Duvalier's palace guards burst into the Dominican embassy in search of 22 anti-government Haitians, including several army officers, who had sought asylum there. They ransacked two floors without finding the men (who were hiding in the embassy residence at the edge of town), then threatened a secretary and departed, posting a guard around the building to interrogate all who tried to leave or enter. "An invasion of our country," cried Dominican President Juan Bosch. The Dominican navy (such as it is) put to sea, tanks clanked toward the border...
Blood at the Border. Negro Haiti and the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic are the worst of neighbors even in the best of times. In the early 1800s, the sport of Haitian rulers was slaughtering Dominicans; in the 1930s, Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo methodically killed some 15,000 Haitian squatters on his land. Now Duvalier is getting in his licks. Dominican nationals in Haiti have been-jailed and savagely beaten; others have disappeared without a trace. One Dominican diplomat was murdered. The Haitian border has been closed to Dominicans for months, and there are persistent reports that members of the Trujillo...
...Washington hurriedly flew a five-nation investigating team to the island. But in their one brief meeting with Haiti's dictator, Duvalier insisted on jabbering in Creole; the OAS team scarcely understood his words. Only under pressure did he agree to remove his guards from the Dominican embassy and grant safe-conduct out of the country for 15 of the Haitian asylees. Nothing would budge him on the other seven, who were moved to the Colombian embassy, and there were no promises about what would happen when the OAS team departed...
...Catholic Biblical Quarterly, "Catholics and Protestant scholars have found a common bond -the task of explaining the Word of God in its historical perspective." Today Scriptural criticism may be the most ecumenical of all pursuits. "I'm working in the closest understanding with every good Protestant scholar," says Dominican Father Roland de Vaux, head of the Ecole Biblique and world-famed as one of the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. "We don't agree on everything, but the more we study, the more we discover, the more we understand-and the more we agree." This agreement...