Word: consulant
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...Fortaleza palace, with its trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace...
...lying twelve miles offshore, finally concluded that the Dominicans were not about to settle their own quarrel. Arriving at a predawn meeting of government and U.C.N. negotiators at a private home, Arturo Morales Carrión, an assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and U.S. Vice Consul David Shaw moved in and virtually took command. They alternately guided, cajoled and stormed. Government negotiators at last agreed to a formula in favor of a seven-member Council of State. President Balaguer would have until Feb. 27 to resign with dignity, would be empowered to pick his successor from...
...Dodd, in town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President's inflammatory speeches...
Heads Down. It was at this point that a car arrived with U.S. Consul Lewis Hoffacker and Dodd. Sizing up the situation, Hoffacker jumped out, grabbed Smith and hauled him semiconscious into the sedan. "Lie on the floor and keep your heads down!" Hoffacker yelled to Smith and Dodd; then he gunned his motor and drove away at full speed before the confused soldiers could stop...
...they presented their demands to Balaguer, the Trujillo brothers found themselves surrounded by pro-Balaguer Cabinet officers and army men. U.S. Consul John Calvin Hill Jr. strolled in, joining Balaguer and the brothers. As if helpless in such a situation, Balaguer shrugged his shoulders, told the Trujillos that "if you don't leave, they'll invade us." Consul Hill joined in: "That's absolutely the best thing." Arismendi conferred alone with Balaguer another 20 minutes, then picked up the phone, dialed his wife and told her to "pack and get ready...