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...first to cry Communist about their hard-core cadres. With Bennett cut off, President Johnson sent to the scene former Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, a friend of deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, whose "constitutionalist" symbol the rebels were carrying. But the junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras remembered Martin as a promoter of Bosch and cut him cold. At that point, the U.S. had one pipeline to the junta (Bennett) and one to the rebels (Martin). Trouble was, Bennett and Martin disagreed, and it soon became evident that there was no pipeline between the pipelines...
...State Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Jack Hood Vaughn, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance. The mission, as a White House aide put it, was intended to "accelerate strategy." Officially neutral, the U.S. at first had seemed to lean to Imbert's junta. With the arrival of the Bundy mission, the U.S. started working toward a coalition headed by a onetime Bosch Cabinet member whose main qualification was that he had said he was antiCommunist (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Imbert, this looked as if U.S. strategy were accelerating in reverse and he launched strong Dominican-manned military strikes against the rebels. At week's end a temporary truce was in effect. The U.N. wanted to turn it into a permanent ceasefire, but the junta was reluctant to halt its offensive...
...Duarte, an Airborne colonel asked a Marine lieutenant his line of fire. "Before us, sir, and down the street." "Damn it," roared the colonel, "that's the 82nd Airborne before you!" In a strafing attack on the city's rebel-held radio station, a pair of General Imbert's loyalist F-51 fighters from San Isidro airbase accidentally machine-gunned a nearby Marine position. U.S. troops promptly shot down one of the F-51s. Next day, as loyalist F-51s prepared for another strike, a column of U.S. paratroopers arrived with orders to destroy the planes...
...Dominicans. But at week's end loyalist and rebel attitudes had hardened to the point where that seemed forlorn. Once more President Johnson appealed for peace and promised that the U.S. "will render all available assistance toward rapid economic development." As he spoke, 1,500 of Imbert's loyalist troops opened a major attack with tanks and heavy artillery aimed at wiping out about 300 rebels in the northern part of the city. The danger now was of another full-scale bloodbath-no matter how many U.S. and Latin American troops occupied the shell-shocked city of Santo...