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...with ships and marines lying twelve miles offshore, finally concluded that the Dominicans were not about to settle their own quarrel. Arriving at a predawn meeting of government and U.C.N. negotiators at a private home, Arturo Morales Carrión, an assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and U.S. Vice Consul David Shaw moved in and virtually took command. They alternately guided, cajoled and stormed. Government negotiators at last agreed to a formula in favor of a seven-member Council of State. President Balaguer would have until Feb. 27 to resign with dignity, would be empowered...
Partial Reward. In Washington, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward went before the OAS Sanctions Committee. Despite reservations expressed in an OAS Human Rights Commission report (e.g., "the serious problem that has arisen as a result of the arrest and disappearance of several persons"), said Woodward, democracy was looking up in Trujilloland. "A vigorous political opposition acts openly, opposition newspapers circulate, key figures closely associated with the former regime have departed." The U.S. therefore recommended, he said, that sanctions prohibiting the export of petroleum products and trucks to the Dominican Republic be lifted. Remaining economic...
...prevent Fidel Castro from lighting fuses across the hemisphere, Peru last week tried to convene an inter-American meeting to consider means of dealing with Communist Cuba. The idea was pigeonholed by other Latin American nations still reluctant to face the problem...
...Sometime Thing. The conference was financed by the Ford Foundation (with a $70,000 grant) and endorsed by the U.S., the Organization of American States, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Inter-American Development Bank. For eight days taxmen held seminars, swapped ideas, and agreed that paying taxes in Latin America is a sometime thing...
Members of the Inter-American Press Association...