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...export was a sort of Who's Who of the Dominican crisis. Commodore Francisco J. Rivera Caminero, Armed Forces Secretary and head of the loyalist military, was slated to be naval attache to Washington. Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, head of the 1,400-man rebel force, was named military attaché to London; Colonel Manuel Ramón Montes Arache, Caamaño's top aide, naval attaché to Ottawa; General Juan de los Santos Céspedes, current air force chief of staff, air attaché to Israel. Twenty-two more army...
With his list, the President hoped to bring some peace and calm to his turbulent, bullet-pocked nation by ridding it of some of the forces that are pulling it apart. Instead, he nearly succeeded in triggering another coup. Loyalist troops sealed off the National Palace, took the government Radio Santo Domingo "into custody"; and the ultra-right-wing Radio San Isidro-shut down since last October-suddenly switched back on the air, accusing the government of opening the way to a Communist takeover. As Jeeps and combat vehicles rumbled once again through the streets, García-Godoy moved...
...Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took off in a convoy of 31 cars. In Santiago, the group swaggered around town, waving their guns, disarming cops and bullying civilians. After the memorial service, they went on to breakfast at Santiago's Hotel Matum, a small two-story hilltop...
...telephone and called for help from President García-Godoy in Santo Domingo. Within minutes, 133 U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne were on their way by helicopter and plane to Santiago. By the time they snuffed out the battle, the hotel was a shambles, and 23 loyalist Dominican troops and five rebels were dead, including Colonel Juan Maria Lora Fernández, 40, a U.S.-trained officer who was Caamaño's chief of staff during the April revolt...
...only ones to benefit from the episode were the extremists on both sides. A resurgence of violence makes it more difficult for loyalist military leaders to contain their bitter hatreds, and last week some officers were talking angrily about deposing President García-Godoy in the interests of restoring "order...