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Today the people of the Dominican Republic will participate in what promises to be the second "free" election in their island's history. The first one, held in 1962, made Professor Juan Bosh President of the Republic. Within seven months, a military coup made him a private citizen again...
...critics of Johnson Administration policy in the Dominican Republic will visit Harvard this weekend to report on a recent trip to Santo Domingo and to recruit unofficial observers for the island's June 1 elections...
Both were members of the Commission on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, chaired by Bayard Ruston, which surveyed pre-election conditions through out the island last week...
...Commission hopes to send at least 25 private citizens, some of them students, to the Dominican Republic for the week of the elections, Lowenstein said last night. He explained that all Dominican political factions and spokesmen for the National Police and the Army have expressed approval for the idea of private observers...
...served as interim President from 1960 to 1962, and the National Integration Movement's Rafael Bonnelly, 60, a conservative who succeeded Balaguer as interim President in 1962. Last week, to hardly anyone's surprise-and after weeks of denying that he wanted it-the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party went by acclamation to Juan Bosch, the onetime President who was tossed out by the military in 1963. Bosch insisted that he had been drafted, said that his goal would be to "develop this country in such a way that our sons and the sons of our sons...