Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trujillo is dead, but a legacy of a political system without politics lingers on to thwart the efforts of those who seek to establish representative government in the Dominican Republic. At present, the unexpected seems to have happened: a coalition government has been agreed upon, and for the first time in three decades Dominicans may have a government composed of several political forces...
Even a guided revolution is hard to control once it begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...
...Whose body was found last week aboard the family yacht Angelita, along with $4,562,837 in U.S. currency and Dominican pesos. Airfreighted to Paris, the body was taken for burial to Pére-Lachaise Cemetery, resting place of Abélard and Héloïse, Chopin and Balzac...
Yells from Castro. Latin American opinion, which recoils from the thought of any Yankee intervention, took this one in stride. Fidel Castro, with designs of his own on the Dominican Republic, claimed that the whole maneuver was merely designed to set a precedent for action against him. He sent delegates to the U.N. Security Council and the Organization of American States to denounce the U.S. intervention and demand that the U.S. forces be withdrawn. At the Security Council he won the approval of Russia's Valerian Zorin but only eloquent silence from Security Council members Ecuador and Chile...
...putting them in control of the armed forces-Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th of June. A risky intervention, done with speed and good intentions, seemed to be working...