Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer is: very little. Juan Bosch captured the problem several weeks ago in a typical epigram: "These elections are a fine solution for the U.S. but none at all for the Dominican Republic." Free elections allow CBS reporters, as one did last week, to enthuse about "the transition from ballots to bullets." This alliterative interpretation overlooks the fact that there is absolutely no guarantee that this election will change Dominican political realities any more than did the 1962 exercize...
...National Integration Movement's Rafael Bonnelly, 60, a conservative who succeeded Balaguer as interim President in 1962. Last week, to hardly anyone's surprise-and after weeks of denying that he wanted it-the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party went by acclamation to Juan Bosch, the onetime President who was tossed out by the military in 1963. Bosch insisted that he had been drafted, said that his goal would be to "develop this country in such a way that our sons and the sons of our sons will live in dignity...
...campaign, in which Bosch's chief opponent is Balaguer, is basically one of personalities, but there is a major emotional issue: the charges of Communism against Bosch. Last week sidewalks and walls in Santo Domingo were slathered with orange signs reading "Juan Bosch es comunista." Bosch tried to blunt such charges by taking to the radio in a series of half-hour broadcasts, declaring that "Communism is always totalitarianism...
...irony is Brechtian, without political reference; Grass is more concerned with moral character than social institutions. At one extreme his irony is angry, grotesque, a mingling of Bosch and bosh-as when he writes of a museum where...
...walkout was supported by ex-President Juan Bosch and proved highly effective. Factories and sugar mills shut down, dock workers stomped off their jobs, and even Santo Domingo's airport had to be closed. With the nation headed toward full paralysis, Rivera Caminero finally took the hint. Turning control of the armed forces over to Colonel Enrique Perez y Perez, he sailed off to the U.S. aboard a Dominican Navy frigate...