Word: dominican
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Admiral Gorshkov is also developing a new force that will give the Russians the ability to intervene in trouble spots, much as the U.S. did in Lebanon and the Dominican Republic. The Soviet navy has built its first carrier, a new 25,000-tonner called the Moscow, which is now on a training course in the Black Sea, and is readying a second, the Leningrad, for sea trials; some Western sea experts feel that the Russians may build many more. The Soviet carriers have landing areas only on the rear and can thus handle only helicopters or vertical-takeoff aircraft...
Lyndon Johnson, too, profited from the lesson of the Bay of Pigs. When he and his advisers decided that U.S. intervention was required in the Dominican Republic in 1965, he used no halfway measures. The U.S. landed in force, the job was done with dispatch, and the critics who carped about "gunboat diplomacy" were simply ignored...
...Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined by the war in Viet Nam. What may become the biggest engagement of that conflict to date is shaping up in the hill country of the DMZ around Khe Sanh, and Johnson is reluctant to take any new military initiative that might divert...
...Senate office behind, Lowenstein was elected president of the National Student Association (NSA) during the summer of 1951. Ivanhoe Donelson, a former SNCC leader, and others in the New Lelt relate his NSA presidency with his involvement as an observer of the Dominican Republic elections of 1965. The unexpected election of conservative Balaguer aroused Leftist cries of a fixed election. The observers, led by Norman Thomas, reported that the elections were reasonably fair. As a consequence Lowenstein is still accused of being a CIA agent. As far as can be determined Lowenstein wasn't offered money from...
Stirring Vision. In his application of naked power, Johnson is an acknowledged virtuoso as his Viet Nam critics ruefully concede. Despite thunderous criticism of his intervention in the Dominican Republic, the President's swift application of military strength followed by an intense diplomatic campaign proved, in the end, a successful maneuver. He has also applied indirect pressure with superb efficacy. Twice he used it to avert a war over Cyprus. His historic hot-line exchange with Kosygin during the Arab-Israeli War contained that conflict on terms acceptable to both the U.S. and Russia. Johnson's artful cajolery ended...