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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...
...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...
...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...
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...