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...agreed to by all factions. If all now goes well, there will emerge a Swiss-style Council of State, and free elections will be held next year. Agreement on all this was reached by the opposition and by President Joaquin Balaguer and the army's strongman. General Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echavarria...
...unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...There have been three U.S. Navy ships named Texas. The first was an ironclad ram captured from the Confederates in 1865 at the jail of Richmond. The second Texas took part in the Spanish-American War. In 1921 she was used as a target in Chesapeake Bay in Billy Mitchell's effort to show that a plane could sink a ship, and it is in Chesapeake Bay that she still lies. The third Texas, a veteran of World Wars I and II, was towed from Norfolk to Texas in 1948, where she has become a historical shrine near Houston...
...week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate bid to reéssert the bloody dictatorship. It took a triple play to defeat it-by Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, helped by a 37-year-old Dominican air force general named Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria, and by the U.S. Navy, which coolly provided just the touch of old-fashioned "gunboat diplomacy" to enable the Dominicans themselves to end the Trujillo...
Powerful Dissent. At week's end, President Balaguer found himself in shaky control. He rewarded the two air force men by putting them in control of the armed forces-Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th...