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...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 for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert Barreras, agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Old Pros | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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