Word: fiallos
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...election day he got 648,000 votes for a 2-to-1 margin over his more conservative opponent, Viriato Fiallo. Bosch's party also won firm command of the legislature, and a clear mandate to put its promised reforms into action. Eight days after the great election there was a clash between troops and members of a weird religious cult in the back country that left at least 23 dead. But that had little to do with politics...
...held out longest was Rodriguez Echaverria. He ordered out hired thugs and government sound trucks to try to woo the mob and break the strike. Then Rodriguez Echaverria stiffly rejected as ''inadmissible" a compromise plan that Puppet Balaguer quietly proposed to Dr. Viriato Fiallo, head of the opposition U.C.N., under which Balaguer would resign in favor of a Swiss-style Council of State...
...night last week, Dr. Viriato Fiallo, the widely respected, 66-year-old general practitioner who heads the U.C.N., called, along with an aide, on Trujillo's leftover puppet, President Joaquin Balaguer. Politely but firmly, the visitors told the little (5 ft. 6 in.) bachelor that although they admired his firm resistance to the comeback plans of two Trujillo brothers ("the wicked uncles") a fortnight ago, Balaguer and the holdover cronies who surrounded him nonetheless represent "Trujilloism without Trujillo," and must...
Balaguer pointed out that if he quit, his legal successor is supposed to be the armed forces secretary. They had thought of that: Balaguer need only name Fiallo to that post, resign, and permit Fiallo to succeed him. Fiallo would then reappoint as armed forces chief the man who now occupies the job: General Rodriguez Echaverria, whose support of Balaguer gave him the muscle to oust the Trujillos. Balaguer, still backed by Rodriguez Echaverria, refused. "We have had enough!" exploded Fiallo, and out over Santo Domingo's Radio Tropical went a U.C.N. call for a general strike...
...Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th of June. A risky intervention, done with speed and good intentions, seemed to be working...