Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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APRIL 1967: A terrorist in the Dominican Republic celebrated the anniversary of the U.S. intervention by hurling a grenade at an American schoolteacher and killing...
...Presidents almost since the Republic began. But the device has become increasingly popular since World War II. Harry Truman made use of it to send U.S. forces into Korea in 1950; Dwight Eisenhower dispatched the Marines into Lebanon under it in 1958; Lyndon Johnson employed it to invade the Dominican Republic-and to expand the U.S. presence in Viet...
Back in the Dominican Republic, hardly anyone ever thought that Ricardo Adolfo Jacabo Carty would even make it to the majors. "They put me in left field when I was a kid," he recalls, "and the ball went over my head. They put me to catch, and the ball went behind me." One thing Rico could always do, though, was "heet the ball." That is what impressed major league scouts when, at 18, Carty came to the U.S. to play in the Pan American Games. Unable to speak a word of English, he was quick to give his autograph...
...strongest-right-wing ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin and conservative Vice President Francisco Augusto Lora-lagged far behind. The man who would have proved Balaguer's strongest opponent, ex-President Juan Bosch, was abstaining from participation in the election, and so was his Dominican Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party. Explained Bosch, a Utopian with a strong emotional following among the poor who was overthrown by the military in 1963 after only seven months in office: "Elections don't solve anything, because the military does not respect the results." Instead, the former...
Comfortable Posts. In the voting at week's end, Balaguer's well-organized political machine dominated the Dominican scene. The President was backed not only by the influential military but also by officeholders-many of them ex-Trujillo followers-eager to hang on to their comfortable posts. As the counting of the votes began and the President spurted to an early lead over his rivals, it seemed that Joaquin Balaguer might yet find time to build those museums...