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...point in Latin America is whether a freely elected President who succeeds a dictator can reform his country into democratic stability -and how long it will take. Last week the question came up in the Dominican Republic, for more than 30 years the private preserve of the late Rafael Trujillo, where just such a President was inaugurated. The man: Juan Bosch, 53, a scholarly, silver-haired writer, ex-revolutionary and theoretical reformer-and Mr. Question Mark himself...
Whence the Wherewithal? From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it needs plenty. Two years after the overthrow of Dictator Trujillo, more than 20% of the country's labor force is still unemployed or underemployed, the per capita growth in gross national product is almost at a standstill, and the illiteracy rate stands...
...this threatens to make political life hard for Bosch. Hounding him on the extreme left are Red agitators prodded by radio from neighboring Cuba. Then there are the frayed, right-wing remnants of Trujillo's toppled government, as well as elements of the now-dissolved provisional government. Even the leftist parties that originally supported Bosch are giving him trouble. Just two days before the inauguration, he had to revise his 15-member Cabinet...
...Oilman Charles B. Wrightsman, the Kennedys' neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla. Such weight did he swing that he was instrumental in having Diplomat Robert D. Murphy sent on a secret White House mission in 1961 to listen to the laments of the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, then wilting under U.S. sanctions. Naturally, Igor tagged along, too. But now the private line is disconnected. In Washington, a federal grand jury indicted Igor for failing to register as a highly paid agent (sharing fees estimated at $200,000) of the deposed Trujillo regime. Facing up to 20 years...
...People. After Trujillo was assassinated, Bosch went home, not to promote a revolution, but to run for President. He turned his Dominican Revolutionary Party into a peasants' and workers' party, proclaimed himself the candidate of the havenots, promised to distribute 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families, first using former Trujillo holdings, then buying land with money from an agrarian reform tax. His most worrisome tendency, at least to outside eyes, was his habit of resigning his candidacy when things did not go right, in a manner reminiscent of Brazil's unstable ex-President Janio...