Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work on other aspects of the story. Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, one of several reporters assigned to the story in the Washington bureau, covered the series of emergency sessions of the Organization of American States. San Juan Stringer Nat Carnes talked at length with deposed President Juan Bosch, a leading figure in the drama, and bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America reported on reaction...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History, called the U.S. action "the least justifiable foreign policy action the U.S. has taken in recent history." Hughes added that to his knowledge," neither the President nor anyone else has presented solid evidence that the movement has been taken over by the Communists. Bosch would have made a better leader than anyone presently on the horizon...
Barnes said that President Johnson had greeted Bosch's election as a step toward Democracy in Dominican National elections of 1962. Now, Barnes continued, Johnson is supporting a regime that helped to overthrow Bosch...
...feels it was justifiable to send troops to the Dominican Republic to evacuate foreigners, he thinks President Johnson was premature in labeling the revolt Communist controlled. Huntington said that the presence of our troops "weakened the reform elements, and support should have been given to former President Juan Bosch...
...revolutionaries has given the leadership of the revolution to the Communists. Withdrawing now would give them the entire republic, something neither the OAS nor the U.S. desires. Now Johnson should urge the OAS to use the leverage of this military force to create a provisional government under Juan Bosch, until OAS-supervised elections such as those of 1963 can be held...