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...peace commission sat behind a hotel-dining room table in the provincial Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, and for nearly five hours listened patiently to a stream of attorneys, labor leaders, businessmen, doctors, politicians and housewives. Some supported the loyalist cause of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras, firmly in command of 95% of the country; others pleaded for Rebel Leader Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, insisting, "We are not Communists." At last the OAS team departed-to start again in another town. "It's all beginning to sound like a broken record," sighed...
...suggestions that both he and Imbert step aside in favor of OAS-supervised elections, Caamaño answered with a flat no. The most he would do was appoint a six-man team to talk to the OAS. On the rebel team, interestingly enough, was Antonio Guzmán, who was once regarded as a possible neutral choice to head an interim government. The rebel demands made most of the negotiations academic: 1) restoration of the 1963 constitution written under deposed President Juan Bosch, 2) recognition of Bosch's legislature, 3) "constitutionalist" control of the Dominican military, 4) formation...
...also affirmed the desire of the Johnson Administration for a constitutional democracy in Santo Domingo, stating that General Imbert, head of the military junta, would not be "satisfactory" to Washington as a permanent leader of the Dominican government...
...said that it was necessary to take decisive action immediately and that it was unfortunately much easier to encourage a man like Imbert than to discourage him. He asserted that the long range policy objective of the Administration was no different than that of most of its critics--to establish a stable, reform democracy. The real basis of the difference of opinion, he said, was in understanding the particulars of the situation...
...cash OAS checks for back government pay, refused to place the cable and banking facilities in his area under OAS auspices. Throughout the week, snipers pecked away from the rebel zone, adding one more wounded to the list of 139 U.S. casualties, and several mortar shells, fired probably by Imbert's troops, hit rebel territory, killing at least two people...