Word: santo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ugly cloud hovering over the games-student unrest-seems to have diminished. Troops still occupy the Santo Tomas campus of the National Polytechnic Institute, and police lurk in the hills surrounding the sports sites. The students are still bitter over government suppression of their protests, a small war that has claimed some 100 lives in the past two months. Nevertheless, the students, too, have caught the Olympic spirit. Said one youth: "It may seem difficult to understand, but we're all for the Olympics. The games will go well...
Home-Made Bazooka. The first casualty of the invasion was nonviolence. When protesting students assembled in the Plaza of the Three Cultures,* the granaderos charged. Students retreated to nearby apartments and replied with a volley of rocks and Molotov cocktails. At the Santo Tomas campus of the Polytechnic National Institute, the students had better weaponry. Snipers armed mostly with .22-cal. rifles and pistols, plus a home-made bazooka, pinned the granaderos down until reinforcements of riot cops arrived. Throughout much of the week, clashes continued in scattered spots...
...Dominican Republic. Though still troubled by many of the problems of the underdeveloped, the country has experienced a relaxation of the old political tensions that triggered the 1965 revolution. From the rich rice fields in the north and the green, leafy mountain towns of the west to downtown Santo Domingo, Balaguer has launched an ambitious renovation of the Dominican Republic and its morale, helped along by $45 million in U.S. aid. New warehouses are sprouting up along the capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting three years ago. More than 80% of the capital...
Balaguer is even planning a tourist industry along a 25-mile strip of powdery white beach on the eastern end of the island. Appalling poverty and misery still remain, of course; fetid new slums have sprung up north of Santo Domingo, and a yearlong drought in the parched, scabrous southern peninsula has decimated cattle herds...
...government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes far more fervently in democracy and the future of his country than in power...