Word: domingo
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...plaint that Washington was guilty of "overreaction." The most cogent and authoritative account of the affair, Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), was published last week, adding significant ly to history's vindication of President Johnson's action. Its author: John Bartlow Martin, 51, U.S. ambassador to Santo Domingo from 1962 to 1964, and, as Johnson's special envoy, one of the key American officials in the Dominican capital during last year's civil...
Intrigues & Failures. Martin proved an honorable and patient diplomat in Santo Domingo. He did his utmost to shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...
...Objectives. In April 1965, Santo Domingo exploded once again, and Martin was summoned to the White House to serve once again in that hapless country. President Johnson made clear that U.S. actions would be guided by two main objectives: 1) averting a bloodbath and protecting American lives, and 2) preventing a Castro takeover. Hurriedly dispatched to Santo Domingo, Martin spent weary days negotiating with the rebels and mustering the facts to guide U.S. policy...
...York Times Correspondent Tad Szulc as a well-meaning nationalist. Martin has a slightly different assessment: "I had met no man who I thought might become a Dominican Castro-until I met Caamano. He was winning a revolution from below. He had few political advisers in Santo Domingo at that time but Communists...
Above Control. The Dominican military, which long considered itself above civilian control, last week felt the touch of Balaguer's authority. The military man in question was Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, whose elite troops had initially turned back the rebels in Santo Domingo, but whose continued presence had so disrupted peace negotiations that the U.S. hustled him out of the country last September...