Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot was originally set for the last week in July. But last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan...
Your associate editor's report on the Dominican Republic [May 25] is insulting to my country and unfactual and contradictory in its appraisal of the progress that we have achieved without any foreign help. Mr. Daniels must have spent his three days in my country soaked in Dominican rum and blinded by the tropical sun if he didn't see the many large beautiful public schools, the big modern hospitals, the new university city, the newly constructed and well-paved roads, the ports, and the hundreds upon hundreds of public facilities built by my government...
...CARRI Consul of the Dominican Republic Houston, Texas
...have just returned from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. My husband listed his occupation as "Radio and TV"-and nobody followed us. We saw the troops drilling, the homes of all the Trujillo relatives and the poverty. However, contrary to your report, no one fixed the slot machines or the gambling tables in our favor. As Americans we find the doctrine of dictatorship hard to take under any circumstances, but we could not help noticing that our own Puerto Rico was embroiled in a violent telephone strike, with communications cut by unthinking "free" citizens, who apparently only know...
...became a Catholic. Since he and his girl could not be married (the church ruled both of their previous marriages valid), they split up. After a year writing poetry on a Guggenheim fellowship, Everson joined the Catholic Worker movement in Oakland. Fourteen months later he became Dominican Brother Antoninus at Oakland's St. Albert's College. Except for an unsuccessful attempt to study for the priesthood ("I couldn't see it through for psychological reasons") and a three-week protest walkout (he objected to the installation of a TV set in the priory), Everson has served faithfully...