Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are few optimists in the Dominican Republic; many Dominicans have resigned themselves to the grim prospect of never seeing real peace in their lifetime. Last week, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering and the best intentions of Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, the visceral hatred between rebel left and loyalist right exploded in yet another ugly little fire fight and a series of riots and demonstrations that left 34 dead, scores wounded. Once again, only the forceful intervention of OAS troops kept the tiny war-scarred country from renewed civil...
...fuse that detonated the fight was a memorial service for Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández Domínguez, a rebel killed last May during an abortive raid on the National Palace. Attending the service in the inland city of Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took...
Call for Paratroopers. What happened next? The rebels claim that 350 air force and army troops surrounded the hotel and began blasting away. The military insists that the rebels opened up first at a Jeep patrol. Either way, the soldiers were soon spraying the building with .50-cal. machine guns, then pounding it with 75-mm. shells from three tanks that rumbled over from the base. In the hotel, civilian bystanders cowered in hallways and closets, while rebel snipers in the top stories methodically cut down advancing air force troops...
Winners: the Extremists. In Santo Domingo, rumors flew that the entire rebel leadership had been ambushed and massacred. Pro-rebel mobs took to the streets, slinging rocks, throwing up street barricades, and setting cars and trucks ablaze. On his return to the capital, Caamaño called for calm "so that no one may justify acts of aggression." Sporadic violence continued throughout the week...
...could have censured an outspoken priest without hearing a word of public complaint. But shortly after Berrigan's departure, a group of students from Fordham picketed New York's chancery headquarters on Madison Avenue, bearing signs that read "Honesty in the Church" and "St. Paul Was a Rebel." More than 1,000 Catholics-including a number of nuns and Jesuit priests-signed an "open letter" to the chancery and to Berrigan's superiors that appeared as an advertisement in the New York Times. The co-signers did not impugn the motives of those responsible for Berrigan...