Word: dominican
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...Government and Regulation of land and naval forces." There is no reference to congressional participation in the direction of forces being used against a foreign adversary. Historically, Presidents have committed forces at their own discretion, as Woodrow Wilson did in Mexico. Truman in Korea and Johnson in the Dominican Republic. Congress has retained the final word as to the size and weaponry of the military establishment, thereby exercising an indirect check on how and where they could be used. Last year Congress went further by barring the introduction of U.S. ground-combat units in Laos and Thailand. Rather than object...
...capital, once known as "the Kremlin" because of all the middle-class boys who grew up to be radicals there, posters coated the trees. Evenings, cinemas throughout the city were all but empty and streets were deserted before midnight-the traditional time for political murders. Once again the Dominican Republic was facing the test of presidential elections, and as usual, violence played a leading role. In the three weeks before the balloting, 29 people died and 47 were wounded in political killings, victims of the extreme right and the extreme left. One of the dead: an eight-year-old child...
...Even Johnson had a legal memorandum on the Dominican Republic, but apparently the President thinks that is old hat," he said...
Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...
...polarized. The wondrously wide-gauged group that served the ultimatum includes Vice President Francisco Lora, who quit Balaguer's Reformist Party over the re-election issue; ex-General Elías Wessin y Wessin, the rightist soldier who tried unsuccessfully to crush the 1965 revolution, and the P.R.D. (Dominican Revolutionary Party), which started it. The leftist, urban-oriented P.R.D., Balaguer's chief opposition, has been making headway with charges that Balaguer's police and troops -who he admits are difficult to control -have been reviving old-style political killings and repression. Last week police machine-gunned striking...