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Whence the Wherewithal? From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it needs plenty. Two years after the overthrow of Dictator Trujillo, more than 20% of the country's labor force is still unemployed or underemployed, the per capita growth in gross national product is almost at a standstill, and the illiteracy rate stands...
...elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
Between his December election and last week's inaugural, Bosch made a swing through the U.S. and Europe asking everyone from President Kennedy to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for the where withal to finance his promised reforms. The results were mixed. The Alliance for Progress disbursed $5.000.000 of $47 million in credits and grants that had already been committed to the Dominican Republic. Private industry in the U.S. and other countries agreed to send in missions to assay investment opportunities. And he does have a stable currency to build on. Last year, under diligent prodding from the provisional government...
Betancourt at Best. Even more than Bosch's grandiose plans, what gives his would-be friends pause is Bosch himself. A political exile since 1937, Bosch made a name for himself as a writer, and became a political confidant of Venezuela's Ró-mulo Betancourt and Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marin. He returned to the Dominican Republic 16 months ago, built his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a Betancourt-style voice of peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic...
...this threatens to make political life hard for Bosch. Hounding him on the extreme left are Red agitators prodded by radio from neighboring Cuba. Then there are the frayed, right-wing remnants of Trujillo's toppled government, as well as elements of the now-dissolved provisional government. Even the leftist parties that originally supported Bosch are giving him trouble. Just two days before the inauguration, he had to revise his 15-member Cabinet...