Word: echavarria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 19, Ike's granddaughter; and Fernando Echavarria-Uribe, 25, a Colombian insurance executive whom she met on a 1966 visit to Medellin, Colombia; in a simple ceremony attended by some 150 guests, including Grandmother Mamie and Pat Nixon; in Valley Forge, Pa., thereby stealing a march on her brother David and Julie Nixon, whose wedding is planned for December...
Point-Blank. Warning darkly of a "Communist plot," Rodriguez Echavarria sent air force troops into the streets of Santo Domingo last week with orders to shoot to kill in case of trouble. They found trouble at the headquarters of the National Civic Union (U.C.N.), the country's strongest anti-Trujillo organization...
...news spread, mobs smashed street lights and threw up barricades. At the palace Rodriguez Echavarria arrived to face the Council with 100 troops and an ultimatum: "The Council is not working very well. I have no confidence in it." His men leveled their guns at the Council members, hustled them off to a house at Santo Domingo's San Isidro airbase...
...Este meeting on Cuba about to begin, President Kennedy decided on less conspicuous muscle flexing. U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Calvin Hill Jr., who was in Washington to advise on resuming help to the Dominicans, was sent back to his post with orders to put pressure on Rodriguez Echavarria...
...Waiting. Next day Rodriguez Echavarria, his hopes dwindling, went to visit the Council of State hostages imprisoned at the airfield. He offered a deal: they could have the government back if they kept him on as Armed Forces Secretary. As he pleaded, a group of his fellow officers marched into the room, told him that he was "under arrest." "Wait," he said, but there was no waiting. Stripped of sidearms, he was marched off and imprisoned...