Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Organization of American States became anathema to the rebels when an OAS committee reported that their ranks were infiltrated with Reds. And while the junta welcomed the OAS, the rebels rolled out their Red carpet for the United Nations, which, with U.S. acquiescence, sent special envoys to Santo Domingo. This was the first time that the U.N. had directly interceded in hemispheric affairs, and it established a precedent that vastly disturbed...
Still Another Coalition. The upturn in Imbert's fortunes apparently caught the U.S. by surprise. When Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy & Co. flew south early in the week, rumors flooded Santo Domingo that his mission was to bypass Imbert and negotiate a peace with Caamaño's rebels. The U.S. position was still Constitutionalism Sí! Communism No! But the situation seemed to favor Caamaño, sitting cockily in his downtown rebel enclave, refusing to talk with Imbert and sending out snipers to shoot up the city at will. By contrast, Imbert, while he claimed to control...
...blue and white U.S. Air Force JetStar from the special White House squadron touched down at San Isidro airbase, 9½ miles east of battle-torn Santo Domingo. In the city's rebel stronghold, one of Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deńó's leftist advisers brightened visibly at the news. "Ah," he asked eagerly, "Johnson has come...
...Antonio Guzmán, 54, a prosperous planter and one of the few Dominicans with any claim to neutrality. Guzmán was known as an outspoken antiCommunist, served in Bosch's Administration as Minister of Agriculture. A few days before the Bundy mission to Santo Domingo, Guzmán was secretly flown to Washington for talks with U.S. officials, apparently passed muster, and was flown home again. On its flight to the Dominican Republic, the Bundy mission stopped in Puerto Rico and won Bosch's approval of Guzmán. Rebel Leader Caamaño also agreed...
...Imbert quietly rallied loyalist troops to fight the growing concentration of well-armed rebels in the northern part of the city. With tanks and heavy artillery, one column pushed in from the western garrison of San Cristóbal, 17 miles from Santo Domingo. Another column rolled down from the north across Peynado Bridge. In all, Imbert gathered 2,000 troops to attack an estimated 1,000 rebels holed up in an area that contains, among other things, low-income dwellings, small shops, the city's only peanut oil plant and the Pepsi-Cola plant, which provided an almost...