Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-man OAS peace commission sat behind a hotel-dining room table in the provincial Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, and for nearly five hours listened patiently to a stream of attorneys, labor leaders, businessmen, doctors, politicians and housewives. Some supported the loyalist cause of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, firmly in command of 95% of the country; others pleaded for Rebel Leader Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, insisting, "We are not Communists." At last the OAS team departed-to start again in another town. "It's all beginning to sound like a broken...
...once regarded as a possible neutral choice to head an interim government. The rebel demands made most of the negotiations academic: 1) restoration of the 1963 constitution written under deposed President Juan Bosch, 2) recognition of Bosch's legislature, 3) "constitutionalist" control of the Dominican military, 4) formation of a government of "democratic personalities," and 5) immediate departure of the 15,250-man Inter-American Peace Force...
Ever since his stinging reply to a letter from several Midwestern professors inviting him to a teach-in in April, Bundy has encountered increasing criticism from the academic community. When his sudden trip to the Dominican Republic prevented him from appearing at the nationally-televised Washington teach-in, protests became louder...
...regard to American foreign policy, it seems that in the case of the Dominican Republic the United States took on, the responsibility of defining the social revolution as Communist-dominated. This represents a danger as to future involvement... There seem to be two sides to the American policy here. On the one hand, we consider the situation to be so chaotic that American intervention is justified in fear of a Communist takeover. On the other hand, we seem to expect some sort of stable coalition to result from our effort...
...Dominican society has been torn by violence to a degree that we cannot understand from any part of our national history as a matter of direct experience. And yet there is a very deepseated desire for something different, something which will correspond more to the genuine desires and hopes of the people involved. Now how to move from where we are to there in the current situation is exactly the problem...