Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gunboat Diplomacy. The week started off brightly. General Antonio Imbert Barreras, leader of the loyalist forces, and Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, commander of the rebel army entrenched in downtown Santo Domingo, were honoring the ceasefire. Both sides appeared close to an agreement on the choice of a man to head an interim government until elections can be held. He was Héctor García Godoy, 44, a middle-roading liberal who once served as Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of deposed President Juan Bosch...
Then things threatened to come unstuck again. Caamaño agreed to permit an OAS tanker to enter the rebel-held harbor one afternoon and supply a city power plant. But behind the tanker came an unexpected junta gunboat, bristling with 3-in. artillery and .50-cal. machine guns. If the junta's intention was to provoke an incident, it failed. Caamaño's troops held their fire, and the gunboat churned out of the harbor 45 minutes later. Next night, however, rebel troops started firing their rifles in the air, drawing fire from the junta side...
From the international corridor, a U.S. 82nd Airborne major peered down into the rebel-held section of Santo Domingo. "Our motto," he said dryly, "is 'Out of the trenches by Christmas...
When U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and the other members of the OAS team drove to rebel headquarters, crowds that had booed a few days before now were silent. Caamaño suggested only a few changes in the proposals. He wanted the Inter-American Peace Force withdrawn within a month after the provisional government took power, demanded that civilian arms be turned over to the new government rather than the OAS. He dropped all pretext of becoming President himself, or of returning to the 1963 constitution of ousted President Juan Bosch. He did ask that the human rights provisions from...
Blood on the Trigger. No one had an accurate count of the casualties. Caamaño claimed 67 dead, close to 200 wounded. That might be an exaggeration, but the casualties were obviously heavy. In the rebel zone, TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia reported a sad, ugly scene. In Padre Billini Hospital, four dead rebels lay along a hallway; another seven were stacked in a small room. Both operating rooms were full, and one of the two washrooms had been converted for emergency service. On a table in the morgue lay a two-year-old boy caught in a crossfire...