Word: oases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard a U.S. Air Force Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled 13 months ago against the oppressive regime of the late Dictator Rafael Trujillo could now be lifted. What the OAS...
On the highway leading from the airport into the capital, 3,000 workers and students carrying placards reading "Give Us Liberty," "Out with the Trujillos," "We Are Starving," gathered in early morning to await the OAS team. The impatient crowd hooted insults as a Mercedes-Benz purred by, its license...
"We are Dominicans. Don't shoot," cried Economics Professor Rafael Estrella Liz. The police agent fired a burst in the professor's face, then sprayed the crowd. Another man, a mechanic, was killed, dozens wounded. The crowd dragged the body of Professor Estrella to the roadside, and for...
When the OAS cavalcade finally came down the road, 1,000 bedraggled people broke through police lines to engulf the cars and cheer the delegates. In Ciudad Trujillo, the biggest opposition group, the Union Civica, called for three days of mourning with a shutdown of all commerce. At night, military...
Watching the disturbing show, the governments of Venezuela and Colombia spoke out in alarm against the advance of Communism, and Guatemala urged the OAS to take action. Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos quietly ordered left-wing ex-President Lazaro Cardenas to refuse an invitation to the...