Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help administer his program-and promote "national unity"-Balaguer announced a Cabinet that drew on every political shade. He named the secretary-general of Bosch's leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) as his Secretary of Finance, made the vice president of a minor rightist party another Secretary Without Portfolio...
...hurried over an overlong chat with Peace Corps workers. A few moments later, a 21-gun salute pounded out over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have come to make an attempt - a new at tempt - to make these symbols of op pression disappear from the life of the Dominican...
...meeting, held in the small stucco home of a Bosch supporter outside Santo Domingo, was set up by Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, who has long insisted on the need to "broaden the middle and eliminate the sharp differences between the right and left." Both Bosch and Balaguer seemed intent on doing that...
Downhill Push. Gathering shortly before 10 p.m., the two exchanged warm abrazos, then sat down and talked for two hours. Balaguer repeated his campaign proposal for a "government of unity" formed from both parties. Bosch promised to push the idea among his followers, who account for most of the young, trained technicians and planners in the country...
...Bosch, he said that he would stay out of the government but would not slip back into exile as had been rumored. If he joined the government or left the country, he feared that he would lose control of the young, trigger-happy leftists in his party and "leave the streets to someone else." Right now, he said, it was all he could do to keep them from declaring another war against the Bosch-hating military...