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All in all, it was quite a speech for a onetime Trujillo functionary who had been denounced by Dominican leftists as a tool of the military and of the old Trujillo crowd. But it was only a reflection of the new times and new climate in the Dominican Republic-a...
First Hints. The beginning of the end came last November, when Illia and Onganía had a falling out. A tough professional soldier who sticks rigidly to the traditional army code, Onganía is a man of quiet authority and determination. After President Arturo Frondizi's overthrow...
The elections were over, tempers were cooling, and people were finally talking about something besides politics. So last week, in a meeting at Washington's Pan American Union, the Organization of American States voted 18 to 0 to withdraw the 8,000 OAS peace-keeping troops still in the...
From a force that grew to 30,000 men at the height of the civil war 13 months ago, the OAS troop contingent last week was down to 6,300 from the U.S., 1,150 troops from Brazil, and token forces from Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay. At week...
Nursing & Cursing. The same optimism was apparently shared last week by white-haired U.S. Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 72, who at last was packing up and leaving for home. A member of the OAS's three-man peace committee and Washington's mint-cool troubleshooter in Santo Domingo, Bunker...