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...weary Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. member of the OAS peace team in Santo Domingo, settled back in his not-so-easy chair. "This is a frustrating business," he said. "Some of these people are so difficult. They care more about their own political futures than about the good of the country." If that appraisal seemed harsh, it was at least understandable as tantalizing hope for settlement continued to alternate with delays at the conference table and petty provocations in the street...
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...
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...
...rebels' immediate response was typical. Leftist union leaders called a 72-hour general strike "to repudiate the criminal aggression to national sovereignty made by North American imperialism"; scores of agitators were rounded up throughout the country. Only after the strike flopped miserably (just seven of Santo Domingo's 40 factories shut down) were the rebels interested in getting down to business...
...branch of California's Bank of America. Many major U.S. banks, in fact, are expanding into unlikely earners of the globe, and several of them are growing faster abroad than at home. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank -which already has outposts from Santo Domingo to Dubai, the chief port of the Arabian Trucial States - opened an other in the Chowringhi section of Calcutta, and this week Manhattan's Mor gan Guaranty Trust Co. will open a branch in Antwerp. In all, the number of foreign branches operated by U.S. banks has risen...