Word: oases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yet Trujillo is hurting and putting in long days to stay in power. Economically, the OAS sanctions intensify a recession already under way because of declining commodity prices and vastly increased spending for arms. With the political future clouded, private investment has almost stopped. The rich are holding onto their...
Byzantine Intrigue. Initially, Trujillo responded to the possibility of OAS action against his dictatorship by trying to camouflage the regime. Oppositionists were encouraged to participate in next year's elections. Trujillo removed himself from the palace, his brother Hector from the presidency, his son Ramfis from the chairmanship of...
After the OAS voted sanctions, the extremists, led by Trujillo's onetime secret police chief, John Abbes García, gained the ascendancy. Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo...
The possibility of invoking the never-before-used Article 53 had come up last month at the OAS meeting in San Jose, when the Dominicans, hard pressed, claimed that the OAS had no right to vote sanctions without U.N. approval. Lacking precedent, Secretary of State Herter worried that the Dominicans...
Quickly the U.S., Ecuador and Argentina whipped up a counter-resolution calling on, the U.N. simply to do no more than "take note" of the OAS sanctions.