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...President has no guns." A year ago, this was not the case. The "constitutionalist" revolution of April, 1965 gave the Dominican people their first, and perhaps their last, chance to break out of the political prison constructed for them by Trujillo and his heirs. The urban populace--in Santo Domingo and Santiago and San Francisco--armed itself, split and then defeated the military, and came within hours of constructing a new ruling coalition: liberal lawyers and professors, progressive businessmen, small peasants, students, and workers...
...panicked, remembered "Cuba," Josts its senses, and flooded the country with troops. Claiming to be "neutral," the U.S. contingent promptly reinforced the retreating and broken right-wing of the Dominican military. The revolution, so near victory, was first blunted, then squeezed into the older portions of Santo Domingo, and finally forced to surrender. The old clique of generals, so near defeat, was brought back to life with rapid infusions of weapons, money, men, and encouragement. Finally, after the political "balance" had been firmly re-established, the U.S. created a provisional government, set a date for elections, and withdrew its peace...
...critics of Johnson Administration policy in the Dominican Republic will visit Harvard this weekend to report on a recent trip to Santo Domingo and to recruit unofficial observers for the island's June 1 elections...
Allard K. Lowenstein, a New York lawyer, and the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn, pastor of the Arlington St. Unitarian Church, will speak on "Santo Domingo Today" at 8 p.m. Sunday in Emerson...
...campaign, in which Bosch's chief opponent is Balaguer, is basically one of personalities, but there is a major emotional issue: the charges of Communism against Bosch. Last week sidewalks and walls in Santo Domingo were slathered with orange signs reading "Juan Bosch es comunista." Bosch tried to blunt such charges by taking to the radio in a series of half-hour broadcasts, declaring that "Communism is always totalitarianism...