Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...LUIS RODRÍGUEZ VILLANCAÑAS Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic...
Marighella did not live long enough to see many of his ideas put into practice. Last year, after his followers kidnaped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, Brazilian police set up an elaborate ambush for Marighella. Two Dominican priests who had harbored Marighella on numerous occasions were arrested and forced to arrange a meeting with him. When Marighella's trusted bodyguard, Gaúcho, appeared to case the rendezvous site, he saw two couples necking in a Chevrolet, laborers languidly unloading materials at a construction site, bricklayers working on an unfinished building across the street. Gaúcho gave...
...Dominican Republic, it is brutal business as usual. Since conservative President Joaquin Balaguer was elected to a second term last May, there have been at least 60 political killings, by both the left and the right. Most of the radical M.P.D. (Dominican Popular Movement) leaders have been killed or have escaped to Cuba. That has left the field open to so-called "clandestine commandos," M.P.D. dropouts and bandits who have been known to shoot a policeman just...
Direct intervention, on the order of the Dominican Republic operation of 1965, would seriously undermine the U.S.'s already low prestige in the hemisphere. In any case, it would probably be ruled out by geography. Santiago is 5,000 air miles from Washington; the country as a whole is cordoned off from the world by the Andes on one side and the Pacific on the other. Direct action is out, and the U.S. has little indirect leverage to apply. Cut off aid? This year's total, $2,500,000 in loans, would scarcely be missed. Tighten the economic...
...situations, because the Russians have achieved virtual nuclear parity with the U.S. The old way of achieving political goals through economic aid is still important but increasingly ineffective in countries stirred up to a new nationalist pitch. Precise and quick military intervention (as in Lebanon in 1958 and the Dominican Republic in 1965) can never be ruled out, but is much harder to bring off now largely because of the fears stirred by Viet...