Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being consistently pro-integration, I applaud much of your realism in the Wessin y Wessin cover story. But I do feel that the inconsistencies in our foreign policy, which did so much to force us into the necessary but tragic intervention, are an essential part of the story. Bosch's downfall certainly stemmed from his incompetence, his failure to fulfill campaign promises, and his softness toward Communists; yet had we intervened then rather than now in support of a freely elected constitutional government, no one could accuse us of intervening on the side of a military clique without popular...
...Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, I took rather perverse satisfaction in discovering that even TIME (which was, and is, my symbol of accuracy) occasionally blunders. If that's not former Dictator Trujillo in your *picture captioned "Bosch in Puerto Rico," I'll gladly pay double for next week's edition...
...desire anything other than the salvation of our fatherland." Imbert's junta was composed of a lawyer, an engineer, an air force colonel from Wessin y Wessin's government; in a gesture to the rebels who had started the revolt in the name of deposed President Juan Bosch, he included a pro-Bosch editor...
...police, took a leading part in the 1937 slaughter of 15,000 Haitian squatters. Young Caamaño joined the navy in 1950, proved so contentious that he was bucked to the marines, next to the police, finally to the army. He helped in the 1963 coup that exiled Bosch, and plotted against his successor...
...rebel sector, the smell of rotting flesh and burning rubble still sickened the air. Heavily armed bands of youths roamed the area, yelling "Viva la constitutión! Viva Bosch!" "Let the Yankees come and get us," snarled one submachine gun-toting rebel. All through the week snipers continued to flit from house to house, pecking away at U.S. troops hemming them in. One night a rebel motorboat in the Ozama River made life difficult for the 82nd Airborne. "Eventually," explained a laconic paratroop captain, "we got tired of that, so we sank it." In other action, the paratroopers blasted...