Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned the landscape into a Bosch-like rendering of the pit. By the end of the siege, only three of Plei Me's dozen Special Forces men were unwounded and on their feet. But the Americans were all ready to fight some more. "Are you a tiger, Swanson?" a doctor asked a gut-shot trooper...
...14th of June Movement and in a newspaper plant, U.S. paratroopers seized a small arsenal of rifles and ready-to-throw Molotov cocktails. Under orders to grab every weapon in sight, the 82nd troopers even disarmed the eight uniformed cops guarding the house of rebel-rousing ex-President Juan Bosch. As for Bosch himself, he requested-and got-a U.S. military escort to safer quarters five miles out of town. Rebel Chief Colonel Francisco Caamano Deñó, already safe at a camp outside the city, reacted predictably: "It is a shame for one of the most powerful armies...
...Dominican government of reconciliation led by Héctor Garcia-Godoy is now seven weeks old, and thus far it has reconciled no one. In the bullet-pocked capital of Santo Domingo ex-President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original civil war was launched returned home talking about "strikes demonstrations and appeals" to "drive out" the 10,300 U.S. paratroopers and Latin American soldiers of the OAS peace-keeping force. Bosch's presence has inflamed the left and enraged the right-to the point where the only thing that stands between Garcia-Godoy and renewed civil...
Then there is the Dominican Republic, where Communists and far-leftists of every stripe attempted to steal away a coup in favor of deposed President Juan Bosch, then fought bitterly to keep OAS and U.S. troops from pacifying the situation. These Red groups, the most rabid of which is the Castroite 14th of June Movement, have now hidden thousands of arms in case another opportunity presents itself. In the meantime, Juan Bosch has been parading around Santo Domingo calling for "strikes, demonstrations and appeals" to drive out the OAS's peacekeeping troops...
...Billion Indemnity. A bomb scare delayed his flight from San Juan for an hour while the chartered airliner was searched. When Bosch arrived in Santo Domingo, a few scattered shots greeted his caravan as it sped from the airport into the old rebel zone of the city; no one was hit. Then before 60,000 screaming supporters, he began to speak again-and to "channel," as he said, "the capacity of the people." Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions...