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...approximately the same time, a battalion of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division rolled out of San Isidro airbase, 14 miles away on the other side of the city. Linking up with loyal Dominican troops, the G.I.s drove up to the bridge spanning the Ozama River ?and into another volley of rebel fire. Three hours passed and the casualty toll mounted to 20 wounded before the U.S. forces could declare their objectives secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city...
...other loyalist commanders and some rebel elements agreed under two conditions: that no one would be punished for any acts during the fighting, and that the OAS would supervise the formation of a provisional government. Even as Msgr. Clarizio reported the hopeful news to Washington, rebel forces captured Ozama Fortress, the police headquarters, with its stocks of weapons and ammunition. The shooting continued throughout Saturday, and the rebels claimed 10,000 armed fighters compared with 3,000 for Wessin y Wessin's loyalist forces...
...downtown El Conde and Arzobispo Nouel, Ciudad Trujillo's principal shopping streets, the stores are almost empty, and many would close if the government would let them. The third of the capital's population that lives in filthy hovels, mostly along the Ozama River, is largely unemployed, and government food kitchens supply a daily meal of rice and bananas to the hungry. The customary public works projects have been cut to the bone to relieve a $70 million budget deficit, putting thousands more out of work...
...Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
...sullen, the sun rose through oppressive yellow haze over Santo Domingo. Houses remained shuttered, shops did not open, little knots of serious, worried people met on street corners, in the tin roofed ramshackle market. Two flags hung limply on the signal mast of Fort Ozama's 16th century "Homage Tower." There was not enough breeze to spread them from the mast but every Dominican knew what they were: one above the other, two little red flags with square black centres, the most dreadful signal of the tropics, hurricane jacks...