Word: joaqu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civil war. As an envoy of the Organization of American States, the tall, white-haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect...
...long the lid will stay on the troubled Dominican Republic. Since Dictator Rafael Trujillo died in a fusillade of assassins' bullets in 1961, the country has had four coups and seven governments. Thus on past form alone, the country's new President Joaquín Balaguer, 59, could not be expected to last very long. But last week, after his first 21 months in office, some of the cynics who had predicted his early downfall were having second thoughts...
...over the Caribbean and rolled across the Santo Domingo coastal plain, signaling to Dominicans the inauguration of the country's first constitutional President since the military toppled Leftist Juan Bosch in 1963. "I have not come here to put on the uniform and boots of Trujillo," President Joaquín Balaguer told his inauguration audience. "I have come to make an attempt - a new at tempt - to make these symbols of op pression disappear from the life of the Dominican people...
...first to hang out their banners were the Reform Party's Joaquín Balaguer, 59, a onetime Trujillo functionary and moderate who served as interim President from 1960 to 1962, and the National Integration Movement's Rafael Bonnelly, 60, a conservative who succeeded Balaguer as interim President in 1962. Last week, to hardly anyone's surprise-and after weeks of denying that he wanted it-the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party went by acclamation to Juan Bosch, the onetime President who was tossed out by the military in 1963. Bosch insisted that he had been...
Growing Brain. Though there are countless kinds of malnutrition, the researchers reporting in Boston concentrated on protein-calorie deficiency-an overall shortage of food, including a conspicuous deficit of protein. In Mexico City, reported Dr. Joaquín Cravioto, infants under six months old who had to be hospitalized for this type of malnutrition recovered but then developed much more slowly mentally than older children who suffered from the same condition. Studies in Yugoslavia indicate that such children fail to catch up even seven to 14 years later...