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Loftily declaiming that "my party calls me," exiled President Juan Bosch returned to Santo Domingo from Puerto Rico two months ago to start what looked like a presidential campaign-though he insisted that he would not be a candidate. He claimed he would "channel the capacity of the people," and huddled with old political cronies. At one huge rally organized by his Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) he demanded the withdrawal of OAS peace-keeping troops, even said the U.S. should pay $1 billion "indemnity" for its part in the OAS intervention.* For all the nationalistic talk, many Dominicans regard Bosch...
...closed-door session in Santo Domingo last week, Bosch's P.R.D. hierarchy expelled its No. 2 man, Angel Miolán, 50, party co-founder and the grass-roots organizer who helped make it the country's most important political organization. Trouble between Bosch and Miolán dates back to 1962. Shortly after he was inaugurated President, Bosch began ignoring Miolán and started undercutting the party organization in favor of playing messiah to everyone, including the extreme left. When Bosch was ousted by the Dominican army in 1963 and both men took asylum in Puerto...
...their Santo Domingo meeting, the P.R.D. faithful charged that Miolán had falsely accused Bosch of collaborating with Communists to trigger the revolt. Though Miolán was not present to defend himself, they summarily read him out of the ranks. Having him go quietly may not be that simple. Said Miolán: "The P.R.D. is my home. I will go on defending its right to fight, through the vote, to establish a state of law in our country...
...leftists in the Cabinet, and last week forced García-Godoy to oust a key minister: Attorney General Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, who is accused in sworn testimony of being a Communist-which he denies though he makes no secret of his partiality for ex-President Juan Bosch and the rebels who originally triggered the civil...
...plans to continue this secrecy, wrote Max Frankel in the New York Times, because he fears the new light that the testimony would cast on the Administration's intervention. Frankel revealed in a recent story that the officials were determined from the beginning to prevent a victory by Juan Bosch's supportors, and that they explicitly solicited from the military junta the urgent request that the U.S. send troops to protect American lives...