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...Santo Domingo, while bombs burst and tempers seethed, the elderly diplomat coolly presided over around-the-clock negotiating sessions that ultimately produced not only a stable, non-Communist government but one of the few free elections in Hispaniola's history. Dominicans nicknamed him "El Pato Macho" (the gutsy duck). "He showed up on the palace steps every morning," says Lyndon Johnson with undisguised admiration, "and held that government together with his bare hands...
Bunker shot bison in the jungles of Mysore for relaxation. As for his ability to withstand Viet Nam's heat, Bunker, who seems to take his own temperate zone wherever he goes, regularly worked 20-hour days in steaming Santo Domingo without losing his starch...
Intrigues & Failures. Martin proved an honorable and patient diplomat in Santo Domingo. He did his utmost to shore up the republic's first post-Trujillo constitutional President, Juan Bosch. In the end, it was Bosch who blew it. Martin pictures him as a suspicious and erratic tropical, whose Machiavellian intrigues and "very real failures to meet the people's needs" invited the military coup that set the stage for the 1965 crisis...
...Objectives. In April 1965, Santo Domingo exploded once again, and Martin was summoned to the White House to serve once again in that hapless country. President Johnson made clear that U.S. actions would be guided by two main objectives: 1) averting a bloodbath and protecting American lives, and 2) preventing a Castro takeover. Hurriedly dispatched to Santo Domingo, Martin spent weary days negotiating with the rebels and mustering the facts to guide U.S. policy...
...portrayed by New York Times Correspondent Tad Szulc as a well-meaning nationalist. Martin has a slightly different assessment: "I had met no man who I thought might become a Dominican Castro-until I met Caamano. He was winning a revolution from below. He had few political advisers in Santo Domingo at that time but Communists...