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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...
...Dominican government of reconciliation led by Héctor Garcia-Godoy is now seven weeks old, and thus far it has reconciled no one. In the bullet-pocked capital of Santo Domingo ex-President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original civil war was launched returned home talking about "strikes demonstrations and appeals" to "drive out" the 10,300 U.S. paratroopers and Latin American soldiers of the OAS peace-keeping force. Bosch's presence has inflamed the left and enraged the right-to the point where the only thing that stands between Garcia-Godoy and renewed civil...
When Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy took office four weeks ago, Bosch decided to return. Garcia-Godoy asked him to wait until the country cooled off. But this week he went...
Last week, as Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy completed his second week in office, 9,200 U.S. and OAS troops were still in the Dominican Republic. García-Godoy needs them there. During the revolt, the three shades of Communism-the Peking-lining Dominican Popular Movement, the Moscow-oriented Dominican Communist Party, the Castroite 14th of June Movement-controlled some 2,500 armed fighters. All three groups have been smuggling arms out of Santo Domingo to stash them in other cities and in the hills...
Genocidas & Torturers. Real news was light last week: the OAS peace talks remained stalemated, and middle-reading liberal Héctor García Godoy continued to be the best bet for provisional President. Meantime, Junta General Antonio Imbert Barreras and Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó were holding their fire. Not so the new scandal press. After having its fun with General Palmer, Patria (which claims 7,000 readers) ran a picture of a Dominican beauty dancing cheek to cheek with a "Yankee invader." Read the caption darkly: "She will pay for her collaboration." The soldier...