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...five of his rebel lieutenants quietly put their signatures on a document entitled the Dominican Act of Reconciliation. A few hours later, in the Dominican Congressional Palace across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved the U.S. and other OAS nations in a major military operation...
...Cash. Typically, the end seemed close at hand-and yet not quite within grasp. The bitter hatred between the loyalist forces of General Antonio Imbert Barrera and Colonel Francisco Camaaño Deñó's rebels had hardly diminished. The rebels claimed to want a provisional government; yet rebel youths were taking daily training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare-under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact...
...once Novillero Paar had made his classic entrance, a wag decided to cow him with a substitute, a real toro-a dilemma on whose horns the comedian had no desire to be impaled. Not realizing that his foe was a specially trained, docile beast, Jumping Jack bolted for the barrera but, unfortunately, he didn't quite clear it. His award: no ears, no tail, no hoofs, two bruised ribs...
...Barrera, who led an unsuccessful anti-Castro campaign 4½ months ago, went back with the certain knowledge that the odds had grown even worse. Against him now are most of the 1,798,000 people who live in Netherlands-size Oriente province and its capital, Santiago de Cuba. Santiago professional men shelter Castro's couriers in their homes, support the rebels by buying $5, $10 and $100 "bonds." Among workingmen, there is a brisk trade in $1 bonds. Businessmen arrange shipments of supplies to Castro. When the government reportedly purchased five rebel-tracking bloodhounds, Oriente resistance members scornfully...
Militarily, Barrera is hampered by too few men for too large an area. As a helicopter fruitlessly scanned the mist-shrouded mountains last week, Barrera was asked how long it might take to finish Castro. "Sooner or later," he answered wearily, "we will capture them...