Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic...
...military coup-and the army there now promises to hold elections this June. Peru's rejuggled junta is also steadfast in its election promises. Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt seems destined to become that nation's first freely elected President to serve a full term. And the Dominican Republic has held its first free election in 38 years...
...third day. Vermont's Winston Prouty, generally considered to be the Republican who was really out after Junior, got a chance to ask some questions. What did Roosevelt do with the $30.000 retainer he received when he was an attorney for Tyrant Trujillo's Dominican Republic regime seven years ago? The money went to Roosevelt's New York law firm, and F.D.R. Jr. got his share as a partner. Anyway, Junior now felt that "I would have been just as well off without that client." What about Junior's five traffic violations and $125 fine...
...swing through the U.S. and Europe asking everyone from President Kennedy to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for the where withal to finance his promised reforms. The results were mixed. The Alliance for Progress disbursed $5.000.000 of $47 million in credits and grants that had already been committed to the Dominican Republic. Private industry in the U.S. and other countries agreed to send in missions to assay investment opportunities. And he does have a stable currency to build on. Last year, under diligent prodding from the provisional government, the country's peso gained 20% in value. Still, for all his travels...
...would-be friends pause is Bosch himself. A political exile since 1937, Bosch made a name for himself as a writer, and became a political confidant of Venezuela's Ró-mulo Betancourt and Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marin. He returned to the Dominican Republic 16 months ago, built his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a Betancourt-style voice of peasants and workers. At his best, Bosch seems to stand for sensible reform; at his worst, he indulges some of the erratic whims of a Jânio Quadros, Brazil's mercurial onetime President...