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Four days after 21 Latin American nations, gathered in Costa Rica, voted to break diplomatic relations with Trujillo and impose economic sanctions against the Dominican dictatorship, the U.S. moved to comply. The OAS agreed on an embargo on arms sales to Trujillo; the U.S., which had long been embargoing the arms, went further. President Eisenhower sent Congress a message requesting permission to take back the 322,000 tons of canceled Cuban sugar quota assigned to the Dominican Republic last July...
...then, at the insistence of Arcaya, it was put aside for discussion at a separate meeting this week. The sentence against Trujillo-which sent Trujillo's delegate walking out in protest: 1) breaking of diplomatic relations down to the consular level; 2) partial economic sanctions, starting with an embargo on arms...
Self-control was not the Pope's solution. "There are necessary limitations to the freedom of the press," he said. "And these limitations should be strictly determined on the basis of law." Beyond that, the Pope proposed an embargo by offended Catholic readers: "Do not buy, do not believe, do not favor, and do not even mention this perverted press...
...merely reacting, has lately done so intelligently. A Caribbean arms embargo coupled with an obvious show of patience toward Cuba has taken any hemisphere-wide punch out of Castro's anti-Yankee tirades. Current U.S. investment policies are increasingly based on partnership (see below). The Inter-American Bank, mostly U.S. financed, will be in business just as soon as the remaining 18 of the 20 Latin American countries cough up their donations...
...deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled, the more critical became Dubois, and Castro's Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring my own sandwiches." Next, barbers in Pinar del Rio province refused to cut Dubois's hair. That did not bother him; he hasn't much hair anyhow...