Word: caama
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...fight was a memorial service for Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez, a rebel killed last May during an abortive raid on the National Palace. Attending the service in the inland city of Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took off in a convoy...
...Caamaño himself grabbed a telephone and called for help from President García-Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
Winners: the Extremists. In Santo Domingo, rumors flew that the entire rebel leadership had been ambushed and massacred. Pro-rebel mobs took to the streets, slinging rocks, throwing up street barricades, and setting cars and trucks ablaze. On his return to the capital, Caamaño called for calm "so that no one may justify acts of aggression." Sporadic violence continued throughout the week...
...dimly lighted third-floor office in downtown Santo Domingo, Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó and five of his rebel lieutenants quietly put their signatures on a document entitled the Dominican Act of Reconciliation. A few hours later, in the Dominican Congressional Palace across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved...
Give In or Go. OAS diplomats called it a settlement. In reality, it was an imposed truce, coming after four months of agonizing negotiations that were often blocked by Caamaño, and more recently by Imbert. To soften up Imbert-and Caamaño-the U.S. and OAS applied stiff diplomatic pressures, then cut off the money they needed to pay their troops and civil servants. Other pressure came from Navy Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, leader of the armed forces, who warned Imbert to give in or be forced out. Even then, Imbert kept insisting that the proposed settlement...