Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican government of reconciliation led by Héctor Garcia-Godoy is now seven weeks old, and thus far it has reconciled no one. In the bullet-pocked capital of Santo Domingo ex-President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original civil war was launched returned home talking about "strikes demonstrations and appeals" to "drive out" the 10,300 U.S. paratroopers and Latin American soldiers of the OAS peace-keeping force. Bosch's presence has inflamed the left and enraged the right-to the point where the only thing that stands between Garcia-Godoy and renewed civil...
Despite all appeals, the rebels have openly defied Garcia-Godoy's order to surrender their stolen arms. In turn the President is under increasing pressure from the loyalist military, which is talking coup and accuses him of loading his Cabinet with leftists. The President does not deny that he has leftists in his Cabinet-along with conservative bankers, engineers and landowners. "We have had a revolution," he says, "I must reintegrate the country, so I use so-and-so, and people cry, 'My God, he's a leftist.' Of course he's a leftist...
When Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy took office four weeks ago, Bosch decided to return. Garcia-Godoy asked him to wait until the country cooled off. But this week he went...
...five days the general was urged to step aside quietly by high-ranking loyalist colleagues, Garcia-Godoy and U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker, the able diplomat who earned high praise from President Johnson last week for his efforts throughout the crisis. At one point, Wessin y Wessin reported that the CIA had offered to buy his modest $18,000 house for $50,000. The U.S. countered that the $50,000 was his own idea. Through it all, Wessin y Wessin refused to budge...
...Finished." On TV that night Garcia-Godoy explained that Wessin y Wessin "has been declared in a state of retirement, and has been designated Consul General of the Republic in Miami, Florida." Arriving in Miami, Wessin y Wessin said he would accept the consul's job. "I will serve," he announced, "but in the meantime we are not finished with the Communists, so I cannot be happy." Nor were his loyalist supporters, who complained that the new government had been too kind to the left in its first week. Even the U.S. was upset by Garcia-Godoy...