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WHAT WENT WRONG IN SANTO DOMINGO? (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A CBS News Special on the events leading up to the crisis in the Dominican Republic, with appearances by former President Juan Bosch, Rebel Leader Francisco Caamaño Deñó and U.S. Special Envoy John Bartlow Martin...
...plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled repeatedly between the two camps without making any progress. "When...
...Tuesday's New York Times report from Santo Domingo is correct, President Johnson has decided to embark on a daring policy reversal in the Dominican Republic. After two weeks of telling the U.S. and Latin America, that the pro-Bosch rebels are Communist-controlled, Johnson has asked Antonio Guzman, a former Bosch aide, to form an interim government...
Although the U.S. still hopes to set up as non-Communist a government as possible, a fundamental change in policy has taken place. Instead of trying to make a junta government palatable to the pro-Bosch rebels, the U.S. is trying to make a Bosch government palatable to the military that supports the junta...
Nonetheless we are glad the attempt to support a Bosch candidate is being made. We hope that the maneuver is executed with firmness and decision. The price for salvaging the Dominican situation is high, but Johnson's belated morality and realism is better than none...