Word: ctor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting, held in the small stucco home of a Bosch supporter outside Santo Domingo, was set up by Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, who has long insisted on the need to "broaden the middle and eliminate the sharp differences between the right and left." Both Bosch and Balaguer seemed intent on doing that...
...June 1 election neared, provisional President Héctor García-Godoy could afford a sigh of satisfaction. "I feel sure," he said, "that the next President will have some basis for order and stability." Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Pérez y Pérez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." Dominicans, facing their first free elections since 1962, could only hope that the mood would last...
...social life and perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign representatives a case in point...
There are few optimists in the Dominican Republic; many Dominicans have resigned themselves to the grim prospect of never seeing real peace in their lifetime. Last week, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering and the best intentions of Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, the visceral hatred between rebel left and loyalist right exploded in yet another ugly little fire fight and a series of riots and demonstrations that left 34 dead, scores wounded. Once again, only the forceful intervention of OAS troops kept the tiny war-scarred country from renewed civil...
Among other things, President Héctor García-Godoy and his beleaguered provisional government could use a good laugh. Last week they got at least a chuckle-from a bloodless, sadly undernourished attempted coup that looked like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan...