Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mission. This was confusion compounded. In hope of clearing it up, President Johnson sent four trusted advisers south-White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Under Secretary of State Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Jack Hood Vaughn, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R. Vance. The mission, as a White House aide put it, was intended to "accelerate strategy." Officially neutral, the U.S. at first had seemed to lean to Imbert's junta. With the arrival of the Bundy mission, the U.S. started working toward a coalition headed by a onetime Bosch Cabinet member whose...
Still Another Coalition. The upturn in Imbert's fortunes apparently caught the U.S. by surprise. When Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy & Co. flew south early in the week, rumors flooded Santo Domingo that his mission was to bypass Imbert and negotiate a peace with Caamaño's rebels. The U.S. position was still Constitutionalism Sí! Communism No! But the situation seemed to favor Caamaño, sitting cockily in his downtown rebel enclave, refusing to talk with Imbert and sending out snipers to shoot up the city at will. By contrast, Imbert, while he claimed to control...
...plane merely carried a top-level, four-man presidential mission (see THE NATION). Practically everyone else was there trying to settle the month-old civil war. But in the fourth week of fighting and maneuvering, all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't seem to put the Dominican Republic together again...
...even had a man: Antonio Guzmán, 54, a prosperous planter and one of the few Dominicans with any claim to neutrality. Guzmán was known as an outspoken antiCommunist, served in Bosch's Administration as Minister of Agriculture. A few days before the Bundy mission to Santo Domingo, Guzmán was secretly flown to Washington for talks with U.S. officials, apparently passed muster, and was flown home again. On its flight to the Dominican Republic, the Bundy mission stopped in Puerto Rico and won Bosch's approval of Guzmán. Rebel Leader Caama...
...minutes later, Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 44, approached a U.S. Army sergeant outside the snack bar of the nearby American-sector PX, identified himself as the chief of the Polish Military Mission to West Berlin, and asked for political asylum...