Word: panasco
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...last, six limousines, escorted by Brazilian marines and U.S. paratroopers, hauled up in front of Wessin's house near San Isidro. In the cars were Dominican Armed Forces Secretary Commodore Francisco Rivera Caminero, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, commander of the OAS peace force, and his deputy, Lieut. General Bruce Palmer, commander of the 82nd Airborne. The brass trooped into the house and trooped out again accompanied by Wessin y Wessin. Two hours later he was on his way to exile...
...signed "Bruce Palmer," commander of U.S. forces serving with the OAS soldiers in the Dominican Republic. Printed in Patria, the leftist daily published in Santo Domingo's rebel zone, the patently phony letter protested that Palmer should not be called "second-in-command" to Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, chief of the OAS forces, and concluded: "Who would be capable of supposing that a Brazilian could give orders to a white, blonde, Protestant North American...
...rifle fire laced into the troops of the OAS Inter-American Peace Force. For half an hour it went on without a reply. Another paratrooper got it in the neck. At last, the order to shoot back came down from the IAPF commander, Brazil's General Hugo Panasco Alvim...
...Command. At his headquarters in the Jaragua Hotel, Brazilian General Hugo Panasco Alvim, 64, took command of the 23,000-man OAS military force from U.S. Lieut. General Bruce Palmer. "I'm happy to serve under you, General," said Palmer, and there was no question that Alvim meant to run the show. "You speak Spanish, General?" asked Alvim. "I'm trying^ sir," replied Palmer. "Well, you'd better learn," said Alvim...
...salaries in both the loyalist and rebel zones; at Mora's orders, U.S. paratroopers moved in to block Imbert's access to the Central Bank. Indeed, the U.S. seemed more and more anxious to have the OAS take over in Santo Domingo. Brazil's General Hugo Panasco Alvim was scheduled to arrive and take over command of the 18,000-man peace-keeping force from Lieut. General Bruce Palmer. Mixed patrols of U.S. and Latin American troops started driving through Santo Domingo. And the first 3,500 U.S. marines and paratroopers departed as 1,170 Brazilians landed...