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...Talk. Donny Reid, as Dominicans call him, got into politics as a plotter against Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and as vice president in the Council that ruled after Trujillo's assassination in 1961. Reid has no official political party ties, took no direct part in Bosch's overthrow. But. known as an able administrator, he was called upon to serve as Foreign Minister when the triumvirate first took over. "The people," says Reid, "have been deceived so many times that they no longer believe in talk. You must act instead of talk...
...shaken by the overthrow of President Diem's regime in South Viet Nam last fall, convinced that it was engineered by the U.S. He decided that a similar fate might befall him if he leaned on the U.S. too much. Abruptly he told Washington to stop aid-later typically complaining that U.S. officials had acted on his request too hastily. He recalled his ambassador to Washington, renewed old charges that the CIA was behind a clandestine radio operated by his domestic opposition. He was also still convinced that when he received a "present" from an unknown donor...
...Worthy claimed, was responsible for the assassination of Rafael Trujillo Molinas in the Dominican Republic and for the overthrow of the Diem regime in South Vietnam. He read from an article in the New Republic which backed up the former claim...
...scores injured. France quickly poured in more money, by last year had boosted its annual aid to $135 million, 40% of the islands' gross national product. There is still occasional unrest. Last year police picked up 18 Martiniquans who were involved in a half-baked secessionist plot to overthrow the local government. However, the great majority of islanders are strongly Gaullist in their politics and are well aware that French aid is their only realistic hope of raising living standards...
...meantime, a group of politicians and trade union leaders including an Area Commissioner who had been a long-time TANU stalwart, had begun conspiring with the ringleaders of the mutiny to bring about a real overthrow of the government. They planned to initiate a general strike on Saturday, followed by a coup on the following Monday in which, it was rumoured, Nyerere and his ministers would be removed...