Santo Domingo: Revolt of the DamnedEye-witness account of events in the Dominican Republic in the Spring of 1965 and the effects of American intervention on hemispheric unity and the spread of Castro-type Communism. |
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... Ciudad Nueva in downtown Santo Domingo said from behind the counter as I sipped a cup of strong Latin coffee : " If the troops hadn't come Wessin would probably have taken over the whole city . But why do you have to take sides against ...
... Ciudad Nueva in downtown Santo Domingo said from behind the counter as I sipped a cup of strong Latin coffee : " If the troops hadn't come Wessin would probably have taken over the whole city . But why do you have to take sides against ...
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... Ciudad Nueva via underground sewers so that they could smuggle guns . The area , which had been controlled by neither side , became the scene of a grotesque little war . If he won it , Imbert felt , his hand would be strengthened in his ...
... Ciudad Nueva via underground sewers so that they could smuggle guns . The area , which had been controlled by neither side , became the scene of a grotesque little war . If he won it , Imbert felt , his hand would be strengthened in his ...
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... new corridor extending northward from Ciudad Nueva be opened to cut off Imbert's troops , but that Washington rejected the idea . Certainly it was true that getting caught in no man's land was not a pleasant prospect . Three other ...
... new corridor extending northward from Ciudad Nueva be opened to cut off Imbert's troops , but that Washington rejected the idea . Certainly it was true that getting caught in no man's land was not a pleasant prospect . Three other ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
THE STICK AND THE STONES | 15 |
HELL AND THE LAND OF GOD | 39 |
Copyright | |
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