Word: embajador
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told a crowd of 3,000 that he was the victor and saw no reason to compromise. "This grand and noble people have won the battle against the slavery that a band of Communists wanted to impose on them." Chanting "liberty and dignity," the crowd then marched to el Embajador Hotel, headquarters of the foreign press corps. Many of the marchers carried signs identifying them as Imbert supporters from other Dominican cities. Others carried slogans in English...
...Santo Domingo. "This is what we feared most," said one U.S. official, "that the hard-core people would somehow get out of the city." One afternoon, a band of rebels fought a four-hour battle with loyalist troops at the national cemetery. Snipers killed a marine near the Hotel Embajador, on the border of the supposedly safe International Zone; a paratroop lieutenant was killed and seven men were wounded in a vicious north-south crossfire near the supply corridor. The rebels even managed to whomp two mortar rounds smack into the front yard of Marine headquarters...
...closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer to the Embajador Hotel grounds in the center of the war-riven capital. From the hotel they gingerly worked their way to the nearby U.S. embassy and made it safely inside as snipers fired at the building and at the marines stationed outside. To cover the whole story, they moved out onto...
Meanwhile the U.S. embassy was gathering Americans and other foreigners at the Embajador Hotel for evacuation. More than 500 people were waiting at the hotel and on the grounds when a group of rebel teenagers, most of them kids from 16 to 18, suddenly appeared waving burp guns. They lined the men up against a wall as if to execute them, then fired their automatic weapons harmlessly into the air. "Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal...
...were beyond recall. All day Wednesday the fighting intensified; Wessin y Wessin's troops launched assault after assault in an attempt to cross the Duarte Bridge. Each time they were driven back. President Johnson ordered the first 405 marines ashore to protect American lives at Embajador and to guard the U.S. embassy downtown. Helicopters evacuating the remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered into the Mexican, Peruvian and Ecuadorian embassies...