Word: godoy
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There are few optimists in the Dominican Republic; many Dominicans have resigned themselves to the grim prospect of never seeing real peace in their lifetime. Last week, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering and the best intentions of Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, the visceral hatred between rebel left and loyalist right exploded in yet another ugly little fire fight and a series of riots and demonstrations that left 34 dead, scores wounded. Once again, only the forceful intervention of OAS troops kept the tiny war-scarred country from renewed civil...
García-Godoy will consider it a victory if he can hold the country together until elections, tentatively planned for late May. "On that day," he says wearily, "I will make a speech and then someone else will be President, and I will be the happiest man in the world...
Among other things, President Héctor García-Godoy and his beleaguered provisional government could use a good laugh. Last week they got at least a chuckle-from a bloodless, sadly undernourished attempted coup that looked like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan...
Terrorism by Night. Comic opera though it may have been, the pocket revolt reflected the continuing unease in the Dominican Republic. President García-Godoy's government is under mounting pressure from all sides, and survives primarily because he has 9,200 OAS troops behind him. The country's military is increasingly bitter about the leftists in the Cabinet, and last week forced García-Godoy to oust a key minister: Attorney General Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, who is accused in sworn testimony of being a Communist-which he denies though he makes no secret...
Another sore point is García-Godoy's failure to round up rebel-held arms in downtown Santo Domingo. By night, political terrorists patrol the streets in speeding cars, blasting away with machine guns and hurling hand grenades at their enemies. Last week García-Godoy was even considering bribery to encourage Dominicans to turn in their weapons-up to $80 for a pistol, $55 for a rifle, $250 for a machine...