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...succeeds a dictator can reform his country into democratic stability -and how long it will take. Last week the question came up in the Dominican Republic, for more than 30 years the private preserve of the late Rafael Trujillo, where just such a President was inaugurated. The man: Juan Bosch, 53, a scholarly, silver-haired writer, ex-revolutionary and theoretical reformer-and Mr. Question Mark himself...
...Creole Petroleum Corp. to cattle ranching and supermarkets. At week's end Betancourt flew to Miami, paused for breakfast with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, then boarded a Venezuelan jetliner bound for more state visiting in Mexico. Then he will go on to the Dominican Republic, where Juan Bosch, an old friend and fellow member of Latin America's non-Communist left, takes over this week as the freely elected President of another land recently freed from dictatorship...
...People. After Trujillo was assassinated, Bosch went home, not to promote a revolution, but to run for President. He turned his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a peasants' and workers' party, proclaimed himself the candidate of the havenots, promised to distribute 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio...
...election day he got 648,000 votes for a 2-to-1 margin over his more conservative opponent, Viriato Fiallo. Bosch's party also won firm command of the legislature, and a clear mandate to put its promised reforms into action. Eight days after the great election there was a clash between troops and members of a weird religious cult in the back country that left at least 23 dead. But that had little to do with politics...
Traveling to the U.S. to visit his son in a South Bend, Ind., prep school last week, Bosch hopes to make his return by way of Washington for a visit with President Kennedy. The U.S. has already come through with $48 million worth of aid, plus a contingent of Peace Corpsmen and technical advisers. But the Dominican Republic still needs more. Encouraged by the orderly election results. U.S. officials are in a mood to help...