Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Father Damien Boulogne, 58, the Dominican priest who lived 523 days with a transplanted heart, a record second only to that of South Africa's Dr. Philip Blaiberg, who survived for 594 days; of as yet undetermined causes; in Paris. On May 12, 1968, Boulogne received the heart of a 39-year-old Paris customs officer, and within a few months had resumed a more or less normal life, working on a book and regularly celebrating Mass. His death came as a complete surprise to Jiis doctor, Charles Dubost, who was away lecturing at a Mexican university...
...American investment usually brings with it the American military to protect those investments. American investment further creates or solidifies a small class that becomes both powerful and dependent upon U.S. presence. When popular governments are restored, the U.S. military acts immediately to unseat them. Brazil, Iran, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Cuba are all good examples. Often the American investment forces the economy to serve the needs of the American economy rather than the needs of the people of the country. The country becomes increasingly dependent upon a few products, and its economy is increasingly unstable as the prices...
Under the sponsorship of Sam Huntington, the Center supported a series of post-mortem seminars on the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. The seminar provided a platform for some harsh condemnations of the U.S. action. This was an inevitable result, since that was the way sensible and knowledgeable men judged the U.S. action...
...along with John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, before 1300 people at Sanders Theatre, Stone claimed that the military bureaucracy had learned nothing from Vietnam. "The lesson for them is not 'no more Vietnams.' but to make it easier next time, like in Guatemala or the Dominican Republic." he said...
These bold designs aborted in the spring of 1965, when the project came under strong attack from left-wing and university groups in Chile. The project was soon widely characterized, not without a certain accuracy, as an espionage program designed to serve American imperialist policies in Latin America. The Dominican intervention of May 1965 cemented this feeling within Chile, and eventually the American Ambassador to Chile was moved to protest strongly to the State Department about what he felt to be the project's adverse effects on the U.S. position in the country. It was becoming apparent that if SORO...