Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dominican dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo poses an unhappy dilemma for the U.S. and the responsible democracies of Latin America. Nobody wants to support Trujillo's tyranny-but inter-American treaties promise him joint aid in the event of outside aggression. Everybody would like to see the Dominican Republic turned into a working democracy-but the anti-Trujillo bands that stormed the Dominican Republic last month were led by Communist-liners, offering the prospect of chaos rather than freedom. Battling out the dilemma in tense sessions at the Organization of American States in Washington last week, the OAS member...
...winds of war scudded across the Caribbean last week. For the most part, it was a shouting war, between the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It was, in a way, a shooting war too, as Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo sent a 350-man force into the hills around the Dominican Republic town of Constanza to hunt down 20-odd survivors of a Cuba-based airborne rebellion (TIME, July 6). At the same time, Trujillo readied his guns-and bought new ones-to fight off a new invasion he said was headed his way from Cuba and Venezuela...
Gunrunners. There were arms aplenty available for the purpose, even though Washington has embargoed all weapons shipments to the Caribbean, except for Haiti, caught between Cuba and the Dominican Republic. In Miami last week, U.S. Supervising Customs Agent Joseph A. Fortier reported as a matter of fact that the arms business is booming. Many of the arms are bought in Northern centers, such as Newark, New York and Chicago, but almost all of them are shipped through Miami. For lack of an adequate staff, says Fortier, four out of every five shipments got through...
Castro ambassador's statement in London, the Dominican envoy there agreed that it was "most logical" for a country to build a force to defend its shores...
Thus Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saluted the new nation across the seas. In the century and a half since then, Americans have become much more accustomed to polemic peltings than to poetic praise from Europe, but the latest literary mail carries an eloquently Goethian fan letter. Dominican Raymond Leopold Bruckberger's love for the U.S. is not blind: in the last decade, the French priest, author (One Sky to Share), artist and Resistance hero, has traveled all over the U.S. Inevitably, some of what he has to say has been said before, but rarely has it been said more...