Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican crisis. From the first, he was in the thick of it. He took charge of a high-level committee of Pentagon, State Department and CIA men that met every morning for weeks in his Situation Room to ride herd on day-by-day developments in Santo Domingo. It was Bundy who came up with the idea of establishing a U.S. "line of communication" as a buffer between rebel and junta forces in the city...
...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...
...also affirmed the desire of the Johnson Administration for a constitutional democracy in Santo Domingo, stating that General Imbert, head of the military junta, would not be "satisfactory" to Washington as a permanent leader of the Dominican government...
...from holding office. "First," cried Caamaño, "the revolution's goal must be fulfilled. After that we can talk about elections." To some Americans this sounded like a rerun of Fidel Castro's old tapes-and the scenes in the rebel-held area of downtown Santo Domingo did little to dispel the impression. When OAS cars arrived outside Caamaño's headquarters, hostile crowds closed around them chanting, "With or without the OAS, we will win!" At a rally in the rebel area, he shouted to a crowd of 8,000: "We will never lose...
Alvim called on both loyalists and rebels to "demonstrate democratic and humanitarian understanding by finding a dignified formula for the re-establishment of a lasting peace." That was obviously a long way off, but to underscore his message, General Alvim sent a battalion of Brazilian infantrymen to secure Santo Domingo's bullet-pocked National Palace on the fringe of the rebel zone. From the first days of the civil war, the palace had been held by Imbert's loyalists, who beat off rebel attacks. Now Alvim wanted the shooting to cease. As the OAS troops marched...