Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimly lighted third-floor office in downtown Santo Domingo, Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó and five of his rebel lieutenants quietly put their signatures on a document entitled the Dominican Act of Reconciliation. A few hours later, in the Dominican Congressional Palace across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved...
...suspended dollar aid, maintains only the most pro forma diplomatic relations. His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as "President for life" and wields unshakable control over his tiny country. Unlike the smoldering Dominican Republic, which occupies the other half of the island of Hispaniola, Haiti is filled only with deadening silence as hope drains away and the country lapses deeper into a zombielike trance...
...investigating the origin of another, anonymous leaflet distributed in the area. "After years of frame-ups, brutality and intimidation," it said, "the black people are throwing off the control of the same rulers who are making war on working people throughout the world-in Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic and the Congo." At week's end Chicago-where civil rights groups have long campaigned against Mayor Richard Daley and School Superintendent Benjamin Willis-was quiet. But Governor Otto Kerner, at the request of Chicago police, ordered 2,000 Illinois National Guardsmen into the city to stand by in armories...
...Caamano's rebel zone-and could cut off those supplies if the rebels persist in refusing to yield their stronghold. Yet how long any settlement or provisional government will last is a moot point. After 31 years of savage Trujillo dictatorship and subsequent vacuum, the hatreds of the Dominican Republic run deep, and there are thousands of people on both sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels and is busily schooling hundreds of eager...
...training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare-under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact "the provisional government of the Dominican Republic." The OAS countered with pressure. Imbert has received no U.S. cash to pay the $10 million July salaries of his government, and now the OAS warned that there would be no further U.S. money for his unrecognized regime. At week's end-for the first time since...