Word: caama
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...Santiago de los Caballeros, and for nearly five hours listened patiently to a stream of attorneys, labor leaders, businessmen, doctors, politicians and housewives. Some supported the loyalist cause of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, firmly in command of 95% of the country; others pleaded for Rebel Leader Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, insisting, "We are not Communists." At last the OAS team departed-to start again in another town. "It's all beginning to sound like a broken record," sighed the U.S.'s Ellsworth Bunker...
...crisis went into its eighth week, the stumbling block was still Caamaño, whose 3,000 well-armed rebels have fortified their square mile of downtown Santo Domingo into a miniature Stalingrad. If anything, Caamaño was noisier than before. "Those who believe that time can weaken us are mistaken," he stormed in one movie-house speech. Up went the shouts: "Assassins!" "Traitors!" "Out with the Yanquis!" "If necessary," continued Caamaño, "we will write a page that our people will never forget...
...suggestions that both he and Imbert step aside in favor of OAS-supervised elections, Caamaño answered with a flat no. The most he would do was appoint a six-man team to talk to the OAS. On the rebel team, interestingly enough, was Antonio Guzmán, who was once regarded as a possible neutral choice to head an interim government. The rebel demands made most of the negotiations academic: 1) restoration of the 1963 constitution written under deposed President Juan Bosch, 2) recognition of Bosch's legislature, 3) "constitutionalist" control of the Dominican military, 4) formation...
...neutral, third-force" government composed of uncommitted, nonpolitical business and professional men, who would serve as caretakers for at least six months under the protection of OAS troops. Then, perhaps, tempers will have cooled enough to permit elections. No one-except Imbert-seemed ready or willing to force Caamaño to come to terms in the near future...
When three U.S. paratroopers made a wrong turn and were captured in rebel territory, Caamaño refused to turn them over to the OAS without a witness from the United Nations. He ordered his followers not to cash OAS checks for back government pay, refused to place the cable and banking facilities in his area under OAS auspices. Throughout the week, snipers pecked away from the rebel zone, adding one more wounded to the list of 139 U.S. casualties, and several mortar shells, fired probably by Imbert's troops, hit rebel territory, killing at least two people...