Word: inter-american
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...Federal Reserve Bank of New York one day last week, unpacked their briefcases, charts and account books, and for 2½ hours pleaded for help from representatives of seven metropolitan banks. The same day, the Uruguayans shuttled to Washington for similar meetings with officers at the International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Committee for the Alliance for Progress. The sad truth, only too obvious to the bankers, was that tiny Uruguay is almost flat broke, and, like a householder who is already up to his ears in debt, was finding it increasingly difficult to raise fresh...
...called for a return of the military to its barracks, full amnesty for all, the surrender of civilian arms to the OAS, and formation of an "impartial" provisional government to run the country until OAS-supervised elections could be held in six to nine months. In the meantime, the Inter-American Peace Force would remain to keep order...
When U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and the other members of the OAS team drove to rebel headquarters, crowds that had booed a few days before now were silent. Caamaño suggested only a few changes in the proposals. He wanted the Inter-American Peace Force withdrawn within a month after the provisional government took power, demanded that civilian arms be turned over to the new government rather than the OAS. He dropped all pretext of becoming President himself, or of returning to the 1963 constitution of ousted President Juan Bosch. He did ask that the human rights provisions from...
...82nd Airborne noncom was inspecting weapons along the international corridor when a bullet plowed into his buttocks. From Colonel Caamaño's rebel positions in downtown Santo Domingo, a stream of rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order to shoot back came down from the IAPF commander, Brazil's General Hugo Panasco Alvim...
...some sort of sanity to the country. It called for: 1) disarming of all civilians, 2) return of all army regulars to the armed forces and "irregulars" to civilian life, 3) formation of a neutral provisional government, and 4) elections in six to nine months. In the meantime, the Inter-American Peace Force would remain in the country to keep order...