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...Santo Domingo his supporters were chanting "Juan Bó! Juan Bó! El Presidente!" and making eager preparations for their leader's return, two years to the day after his overthrow and exile by the Dominican military. Yet in San Juan, 250 miles across the Mona Passage, Juan Bosch, 56, the deposed President and the man in whose name the bloody Dominican civil war was launched last April, could hardly look or act less like a returning hero...
...Billion Indemnity. A bomb scare delayed his flight from San Juan for an hour while the chartered airliner was searched. When Bosch arrived in Santo Domingo, a few scattered shots greeted his caravan as it sped from the airport into the old rebel zone of the city; no one was hit. Then before 60,000 screaming supporters, he began to speak again-and to "channel," as he said, "the capacity of the people." Cried Bosch: "The next President must take a suit before the World Court in The Hague, asking $1 billion in damages from the U.S., so the interventions...
...tenacious hit-and-run pressure on Khartoum's troops. Befeathered Simbas in the Congo set ambushes for Colonel Mike Hoare's mercenary force. Turks and Greeks on Cyprus, Indonesians and Malays in the Malacca Straits, Portuguese and Angolans in West Africa, OAS troops and Dominicans in Santo Domingo -all kept their powder dry and their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading...
...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...
...clamored for the ouster of other loyalist officers. Rebel leaders said they would refuse to disarm unless "all the genocide military go-not just Wessin!" The Castroite 14th of June group was openly calling for rebels to keep their weapons, and planeloads of exiles were streaming back to Santo Domingo to participate in a "gigantic" rebel rally this week...