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...Dominican economy this year. Equally important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo) to reckon up the national dollar needs for recovery...
...trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican Republic's continuing unrest, was ordered back to Santo Domingo on the double at the briefing's end. The Kennedys slept the night in the La Fortaleza palace, and next morning...
...news spread, Santo Domingo burst into jubilation-though Balaguer seemed to be having second thoughts and army officers held out for guarantees of no reprisals for their Trujillo-era deeds. Cars honked through the streets, loudspeakers burst forth with Jingle Bells to a merengue beat, and the anti-Balaguer populace danced in the streets singing a new song: "Now that he is going. Now that he is going. Now that he is going, I want to dance with you!'' But was he going...
...succeed him. Fiallo would then reappoint as armed forces chief the man who now occupies the job: General Rodriguez Echaverria, whose support of Balaguer gave him the muscle to oust the Trujillos. Balaguer, still backed by Rodriguez Echaverria, refused. "We have had enough!" exploded Fiallo, and out over Santo Domingo's Radio Tropical went a U.C.N. call for a general strike...
...Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...