Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years before President Truman named him to be Ambassador to Juan Perón's Argentina in 1951; he was later posted to Italy, India and Nepal. Bunker helped avert a war between The Netherlands and Indonesia in 1962, and three years later mediated between factions in the Dominican Republic. Called from retirement and sent to Viet Nam in 1967 to preside over what he hoped would be the winding down of American involvement, Bunker did finally see the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 1973 after four years of " Viet-namization." Sometimes known in diplomatic circles as "the Refrigerator...
...America can thousands of working-class people go on their days off and drink beer and wave pennants and watch a baseball game." Nowhere but in America-and Japan and South Korea and the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and so what? Let her feel patriotic when she watches the Dodgers play ball. The Olympic torch had nothing to do with patriotism either; indeed, it is a symbol of supranationalism. But as the torch zigzagged among them from east to west this summer, people waved flags, cried and sang America the Beautiful...
...notions of arranging huge barter trade deals, like selling 5,000 swine to the Dominican Republic. Its expertise has not been as much in demand as was hoped, and few deals have come off. Last year the subsidiary lost $12 million. About 150 of its 1,000 employees were laid off in early August...
Only a few days earlier, a similar drama had been enacted in the Caribbean skies. A Venezuelan Aeropostal airliner, en route from Caracas to Curaçao with 87 passengers and crew aboard, was hijacked by self-proclaimed Haitian Rebel Hilertaut Dominique and his Dominican accomplice Felix Segundo Castillo. Armed with gasoline and pistols, the two forced the pilot to fly the plane first to Trinidad, then to Aruba, and finally to Cura...
...never dream of doing: he gave away the program to friends, associates and anyone else who wanted it. Within days, CompuServe, a nationwide computer-services network, made MacTEP available to its 135,000 subscribers. Brothers started getting calls about his creation from as far away as Britain and the Dominican Republic. Says he: "It seemed such a simple little program at the time. It never occurred to me to sell...