Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sides appeared close to an agreement on the choice of a man to head an interim government until elections can be held. He was Héctor García Godoy, 44, a middle-roading liberal who once served as Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of deposed President Juan Bosch...
Turning to the Dominican Republic, Humphrey urged that France withhold further criticism of actions by the OAS peace-keeping force. De Gaulle, recalling that he was acquainted with deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, said he assumed that the U.S. had intervened in the first place to prevent Bosch's return to power. It was difficult to understand this, De Gaulle said, in view of the U.S. policy of nonintervention in Latin American affairs...
Humphrey emphatically denied that the U.S. opposed or prevented Bosch's return from exile in Puerto Rico, said Washington still wonders why Bosch did not go home immediately after the revolution was launched in his name. Then Humphrey restated in detail the U.S. case and the sequence of events in the Dominican Republic. De Gaulle said he was glad to hear this explanation...
...Inter-American Peace Force withdrawn within a month after the provisional government took power, demanded that civilian arms be turned over to the new government rather than the OAS. He dropped all pretext of becoming President himself, or of returning to the 1963 constitution of ousted President Juan Bosch. He did ask that the human rights provisions from the 1963 constitution be incorporated into a temporary institutional act to help prevent reprisals after the war-and there he had a point. Last week an OAS investigating team un covered seven bodies believed to have been rebel prisoners executed by loyalist...
...talk to the OAS. On the rebel team, interestingly enough, was Antonio Guzmán, who was once regarded as a possible neutral choice to head an interim government. The rebel demands made most of the negotiations academic: 1) restoration of the 1963 constitution written under deposed President Juan Bosch, 2) recognition of Bosch's legislature, 3) "constitutionalist" control of the Dominican military, 4) formation of a government of "democratic personalities," and 5) immediate departure of the 15,250-man Inter-American Peace Force...