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...Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris...
...North House, the CRIMSON on Thursday gave a very misleading picture of pre-medical advising in the other Houses. One of the first associates appointed when East House opened its doors was Professor Manfred Karnovsky of Harvard Medical School, and subsequently a practicing physician and psychiatrist, Dr. Elizabeth Reid, was added. Not only have these two been constantly available at East House, eating lunch there frequently with students, but last term they organized a special pre-medical evening with invited staff members from the Medical School, at which many aspects of a medical career and of pre-medical training were...
...Instead of Talk. Donny Reid, as Dominicans call him, got into politics as a plotter against Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and as vice president in the Council that ruled after Trujillo's assassination in 1961. Reid has no official political party ties, took no direct part in Bosch's overthrow. But. known as an able administrator, he was called upon to serve as Foreign Minister when the triumvirate first took over. "The people," says Reid, "have been deceived so many times that they no longer believe in talk. You must act instead of talk...
...Reid's most crucial moment came in an earlier test of strength with military brass jealous of his influence. To get the upper hand, he recently called in the army and navy chiefs of staff one at a time to inform them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly...
Hope Instead of Torture. The triumvirate still has not decided on any plan for a return to constitutional government, but throughout the country the assumption is growing that Donny Reid wants to become a full-fledged President. Under Reid, Castroite terrorism has petered out, food prices are lower, business confidence is returning. Last week the new U.S. ambassador, William Tapley Bennett, brought good news: renewal of a suspended $885,000 aid commitment and a $4,000,000 highway loan. The Dominican Republic is certainly not the showcase democracy that the U.S. once hoped for under Bosch, but at least...