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...problems, people-and enemies. No sooner had he taken office after last year's elections than he packed General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the army's ultra right, off to New York as the country's alternate delegate to the U.N.; fiery Leftist Juan Bosch, in turn, went into "voluntary" exile in Spain. In the name of "national unity," Balaguer appointed members of Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party as his ministers of industry and finance, balancing them off with right-wing appointments to other offices. Support for Bosch's party has so eroded...
...Yanks. The Baltimore Orioles shipped Pitcher Steve Barber, a 20-game winner in 1963, back to the minors; the New York Mets astonished practically everybody by farming out veteran Centerfielder Johnny Lewis, their No. 1 hitter (at .387) during the Grapefruit League season, replacing him with Rookie Don Bosch-who batted .147 this spring...
Intrigues & Failures. Martin proved an honorable and patient diplomat in Santo Domingo. He did his utmost to shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...
...When Bosch was bounced, Martin -despite J.F.K.'s mock threat-was called home to demonstrate Washington's stern disapproval of the military-backed regime that took power. Four months later, crushed by President Kennedy's assassination in the interim, Martin forsook diplomacy to begin writing his book...
Balaguer has also begun to deal with two of his country's underlying problems: a conspiratorial far left and a power-hungry military. Still in a state of shock over Balaguer's election victory, the parties to the left of defeated Candidate Juan Bosch have dissipated their strength by intramural squabbling. Balaguer has denied the far left a leader by preventing the return of rebels who were shipped abroad after the civil war, and by appointing one of the wiliest, Hector Aristy Pereira, representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council in Paris...