Word: godoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidential Orders. The troops -two battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...
...takeover downtown was as much intended to calm the loyalist military as it was to knock rebel heads. For weeks, the soldiers, led by Armed Forces Chief Rivera Caminero, have been muttering angrily that President Garcia-Godoy was too soft on the left, was loading his Cabinet with rebels, and failing to collect rebel arms. The rebels, in turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting...
...Terror. That there was no full-scale fighting was due largely to U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker, the tall, white-haired OAS negotiator and chief architect of the tenuous Dominican truce. In an eleventh-hour session at the National Palace, Bunker strongly reminded Garcia-Godoy that alienating the military was hardly the way to run a government of reconciliation. He got the President, and later Rivera Caminero, to agree on the pacification of Santo Domingo through a house-to-house arms search by military, police and civilian teams. Garcia-Godoy then ordered OAS troops into the rebel area to make...
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...
...moment, Garcia-Godoy is determined to do the job of "reconciliation" his way-with one hand on his hot line to the U.S. 82nd Airborne...