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...special envoy, President Johnson sent John Bartlow Martin, 49, to plead for "broad-based" government between the rebels, led by Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, and the five-man loyalist junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras. Martin was U.S. ambassador in Santo Domingo in 1963 during the administration of exiled President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original revolt was launched. He was a friend of Bosch, knew both Caamaño and Imbert. He carried only one condition from Johnson: that Communists among the rebels must be excluded from any new government. Martin shuttled...
...Must Work." The problem was not so much Imbert, who was struggling to return some sort of order to the 90% of Santo Domingo he said he controlled. With U.S. permission, Imbert dipped into Alianza funds for $700,000 to pay government employees and get them back to work, called the city's top businessmen to the Congressional Palace and urged them to start up their factories. "We must create a national movement and work for our country," he said. "The Communists work night...
...Tuesday's New York Times report from Santo Domingo is correct, President Johnson has decided to embark on a daring policy reversal in the Dominican Republic. After two weeks of telling the U.S. and Latin America, that the pro-Bosch rebels are Communist-controlled, Johnson has asked Antonio Guzman, a former Bosch aide, to form an interim government...
...Latin America and the rest of the world, the new pro-democratic policy will not have the luster of idealism that might have covered American intervention if the new policy had been followed from the beginning. Instead, Johnson's motives will appear merely power-pragmatic: The rebels in Santo Domingo defied the American military force, and Johnson decided it would be more expedient to deal with them than to destroy them. Thus the U.S. will get no credit for a good policy, while it was legitimately blamed...
...exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as a closeup of Houston's great Surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in the streets of Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town. The Town Meeting of the World turned international as Barry Goldwater in New York, Dean Rusk and Sir Alec Douglas-Home in London, and Maurice Schumann in Paris joined in a transatlantic gabfest. A mug shot of Canada's most wanted...