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Last week, as Provisional President Héctor García-Godoy completed his second week in office, 9,200 U.S. and OAS troops were still in the Dominican Republic. García-Godoy needs them there. During the revolt, the three shades of Communism-the Peking-lining Dominican Popular Movement, the Moscow-oriented Dominican Communist Party, the Castroite 14th of June Movement-controlled some 2,500 armed fighters. All three groups have been smuggling arms out of Santo Domingo to stash them in other cities and in the hills...
...Alert. Since then, Wessin y Wessin had kept out of sight at San Isidro, silent and brooding. Then last week Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy bowed to the rebels with a decree abolishing Wessin y Wessin's command. That brought the general to life. The San Isidro airbase radio crack led with bitter charges of Communist influence on Garcia-Godoy: "Again, we are on the alert!" The threat of renewed fighting sent waves of panic through Santo Domingo. Both the OAS and the U.S. agreed that Wessin y Wessin...
...five days the general was urged to step aside quietly by high-ranking loyalist colleagues, Garcia-Godoy and U.S. Special Delegate Ellsworth Bunker, the able diplomat who earned high praise from President Johnson last week for his efforts throughout the crisis. At one point, Wessin y Wessin reported that the CIA had offered to buy his modest $18,000 house for $50,000. The U.S. countered that the $50,000 was his own idea. Through it all, Wessin y Wessin refused to budge...
...Finished." On TV that night Garcia-Godoy explained that Wessin y Wessin "has been declared in a state of retirement, and has been designated Consul General of the Republic in Miami, Florida." Arriving in Miami, Wessin y Wessin said he would accept the consul's job. "I will serve," he announced, "but in the meantime we are not finished with the Communists, so I cannot be happy." Nor were his loyalist supporters, who complained that the new government had been too kind to the left in its first week. Even the U.S. was upset by Garcia-Godoy...
Brink of an Abyss. At week's end, in a brief ceremony at the National Palace in downtown Santo Domingo, García-Godoy was officially installed as his country's 47th President. He is, by all accounts, an able, well-regarded man: a middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces...