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President Bosch had entered office last February amid emotional hopes. A left-of-center intellectual and a longtime enemy of the brutal Trujillo dictatorship, he announced sweeping plans for reform. He put an end to the country's police-state atmosphere, cut government spending, and made a start on agrarian reform. But he proved to be an inept politician, stubbornly refusing to compromise. He failed to win over the powerful military. And that ultimately proved his undoing...
...Open. Almost from the start, Dominican conservatives complained that Bosch was soft on Communism. He permitted the return of exiles, and far leftists poured in from every side. To all criticism, Bosch answered that he wanted the Reds out in the open, where he could watch them. But this only hardened the conservative anger and prompted repeated ultimatums...
Among the most powerful of the men who brought him down were two old hands at conspiracy: General Antonio Imbert Barreras, 42, and General Luis Amiama Tio, 49, sole survivors of the plotters who killed Dictator Trujillo. Under Bosch, Imbert controlled the police. He made no secret that he put more faith in bullets than ballots. "This coun try doesn't need elections," he once said. "One party wins. The others won't respect it. There'll be hell...
...Bosch wanted to dismiss Colonel Elias Wessin y Wessin, a vociferous antiCommunist, the brass decided that Bosch himself had to go. At a predawn meeting in the palace, the military chiefs arrested Bosch. They abolished the constitution, dissolved Congress, outlawed Communists and closed the schools. Out over the radio went a manifesto: "We have decided to intervene to put order to this chaos and to halt the deteriora tion to revolutionary Communism." Imbert then sent his police to round up all "subversives." By week's end some 500 people were in jail...
DOMINICAN REGIME NEAR COLLAPSE. screamed a New York World-Telegram headline last week. "The government of President Juan Bosch," wrote Hal Hendrix, 41, the Telly's new Latin American correspondent, "may not survive the year." In less than a day, events caught up with the forecast (see THE HEMISPHERE). "How's this for bull's-eye reporting?" asked the Telly...