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Gino Germani, an Italian Sociologist and a student of modern Argentina; Enrique Anderson-Imbert, an Argentine literary critic; John H. Parry, a British historian of Spanish settlement in America; and Albert O. Hirschman, an economist specializing in Latin American development, will begin teaching here next year...
...fire, only faint progress was being made in settling the Dominican Republic's vicious little civil war. Last week the three-man OAS negotiating team discussed possible peace terms with Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, leader of the Communist-infiltrated rebels, and Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, who heads the loyalist junta that runs most of the country. On the pivotal point of who would control the war-weary nation until elections, they were still far apart...
Talk turned to the Dominican Republic, and one professor wanted to know why the U.S. had chosen to support a "political primitive" and "rascal" like General Antonio Imbert Barreras. In such fast-moving and complex situations, Bundy patiently explained, it was difficult to find a man who had "the virtue of Pericles...
...sniper's shot broke the truce the rest of the week. Once again U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and the other two members of the OAS negotiating team resumed the work of trying to arrange a settlement between Caamaño and the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, who had been waiting peacefully for almost a month...
...talk now was of simply setting up a "neutral, third-force" government composed of uncommitted, nonpolitical business and professional men, who would serve as caretakers for at least six months under the protection of OAS troops. Then, perhaps, tempers will have cooled enough to permit elections. No one-except Imbert-seemed ready or willing to force Caamaño to come to terms in the near future...