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...that there was "some truth in what Ky says," and went on to blast the U.S. embassy for masterminding the rigging of the election despite its professed hands-off policy. U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, he jeered, "is a great specialist in elections of this type. He succeeded in the Dominican Republic,* he succeeded in Viet Nam in 1967, and he will succeed again in October...
...Dominican Republic to file for a quickie divorce from Barbra Streisand, Actor Elliott Gould, 32, walked hand in hand from the courtroom with pregnant Jenny Bogart, 19. Gould announced that he was the father of her baby, due to be born "around Christmas." Furthermore, Jenny announced defiantly, she and Elliott will continue to live together out of wedlock because "we don't believe in marriage...
...report by publishing only portions of it, the White House has been known to make selective leaks of its own when it had a point to get across. In another affidavit, Washington Post Reporter Murrey Marder included a story he wrote in 1965 after the American intervention in the Dominican Republic. The Johnson Administration had given him cables purporting to show that the U.S. intervened only to protect American lives. By digging deeper on his own, Marder discovered other cables that told a much different story: the U.S. was really worried about a Communist takeover...
Haiti's neighbors braced for trouble. The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, put its border troops on a full alert. In Washington, the State Department conceded that the U.S. had increased naval and air surveillance of the sea approaches to Haiti. Since the island's northwestern tip is only 50 miles away from Cuba across the Windward Passage, the U.S. is worried that Fidel Castro, who has been more bellicose than usual in recent weeks, may seize upon Duvalier's death as an opportunity to stir up trouble in Haiti...
...assistant professor; Jack Howard, 36, an IBM programmer, and George Buben of Detroit, who took along his wife. The male players, besides Howard, were Glenn Cowan, a longhaired student from Santa Monica, Calif.; John Tannehill, 19, a psychology major at Cincinnati University; Errol Resek, 29, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic and employee in the Wall Street office of the Chemical Bank, who was accompanied by his wife, and George Braithwaite, 36, a graduate of New York's City College, a United Nations employee and the only black in the group. The women players were Connie Sweeris...