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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...
...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...