Word: godoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps Bingo once a week to take one's mind off the worst threat of all-job insecurity. With every attempted coup d'état back home comes a whole new wave of replacements. In Santo Domingo last week, Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy gave his nation's foreign representatives a case in point...
...Radio Santo Domingo "into custody"; and the ultra-right-wing Radio San Isidro-shut down since last October-suddenly switched back on the air, accusing the government of opening the way to a Communist takeover. As Jeeps and combat vehicles rumbled once again through the streets, García-Godoy moved quietly and easily about his suburban home, nibbling on rock candy, chatting with friends and talking on five of his six phones. The sixth was his hot line to the OAS peace-force commander, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, who stood ready with 8,000 troops if Garc...
...service in the inland city of Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took off in a convoy of 31 cars. In Santiago, the group swaggered around town, waving their guns, disarming cops and bullying civilians. After the memorial service, they went on to breakfast at Santiago's Hotel...
Caamaño himself grabbed a telephone and called for help from President García-Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
...only ones to benefit from the episode were the extremists on both sides. A resurgence of violence makes it more difficult for loyalist military leaders to contain their bitter hatreds, and last week some officers were talking angrily about deposing President García-Godoy in the interests of restoring "order...