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Back in the dim pages of Dominican history-four Presidents and two years ago-Leftist Juan Bosch and Moderate Joaquin Balaguer were both former Presidents who had been sacked by the military. Both were in exile and both had been forbidden to return by the Dominican government. With so much in common, the two struck up a long-distance friendship and began discussing their country's problems by telephone-Bosch from San Juan and Balaguer from New York. Last week, five days after Balaguer defeated Bosch in the country's presidential elections, the two met for the first...
...bitterest and bloodiest years in the country's turbulent history, some 1,200,000 Dominicans finally went to the polls last week for their second free election since 1924. Forecasters had bet on a close result. Instead, Moderate Joaquin Balaguer, 59, won in a landslide, defeating Leftist Juan Bosch, 56, by 745,700 votes to 487,600-almost the same margin by which Bosch himself won the presidency...
Into the Streets. The election was more than a simple choice between two political parties. Bosch was widely accused of being a Communist, and Balaguer-a onetime Trujillo functionary -was attacked as a Trujillista. Both denied any such associations, but the labels stuck anyway. An even deeper issue was last year's bloody revolt. Bosch, in whose name the revolt was launched, claimed that the fighting was a "popular" revolution and looked to the election results to bear...
...sooner were the election returns in than Bosch followers began crying fraud, and Bosch himself announced that his party would challenge the results "at every point where there appears to have been fraud." In Bosch's behalf-but clearly without his blessing -snipers began taking potshots in downtown Santo Domingo, and leftist and Communist troublemakers took to the streets, jeering "A gigantic fraud," throwing rocks, and scattering leaflets that called for a "massive fight in the streets." "Balaguer," glared one young tough, "might be elected, but he will never rule this city...
...Bosch went on the radio and urged his followers to "stay at home and keep calm," while police rushed into trouble areas with tear gas, clubs and rifle butts. When police swooped down on the home of onetime Rebel Adviser Hector Aristy, guards inside opened fire and kept it up for half an hour. When the smoke cleared, two guards were dead. Once inside, police found a large arms cache, but Aristy had apparently fled. At week's end police and Dominican troops seemed to have things under control...