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...Santo Domingo's presidential palace one day last week, a new government was sworn into office while sev eral dozen military officers looked on approvingly. On the floor above, locked in his quarters was the Dominican Republic's elected President, Juan Bosch, 54. Thus, in another of the military coups that afflict Latin America, ended the small Caribbean country's first experiment with democracy in 38 years...
...Santo Domingo, Cellist Pablo Casals, 86-whose Ministry of State is music-resumed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic, conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a festival concert before an overflow crowd in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican...
...University of Santo Domingo, founded in 1538, is the oldest. Michoacán was founded...
This friendly young man of 27 is one of several persons hired by an anthropological outpost to help explain the social and economic structure of his native municipio, Zinacantan. Domingo's special taste, however, is for matters political, and he has been sending sporadic letters to Professor Evon Vogt's Bow Street office describing the great power struggle in his part of the world...
...Domingo, meanwhile, not transmitted the grisly details back to Cambridge but spent much of this summer discussing the Zinacantan scene with a group of undergraduates in San Cristobal. The students, most of whom came from Harvard, we sponsored by a joint summer field studies program, designed in 1959 to train college students at anthropological centers in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, as well as in Mexico...