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...hours later, the symbolic act of friendship was repeated in the Haitian border village of Belladére. Guns banged again, champagne glasses clicked and officials of the two republics and their ladies danced Dominican and Haitian méringues. Before the historic day was over, the two Presidents had agreed to 1) take joint measures against Communism, 2) grant tariff and other trade concessions, 3) arrange supervision of migratory workers crossing the frontier, 4) work out rules for treatment of each other's political exiles...
Chichi aristocrats and ragged mountain peasants alike chattered excitedly about the model town of Belladère, on the Dominican border. At a cost of some $600,000, government architects and engineers had transformed it from a cluster of thatched huts, huddled beside a dirt road, into a glistening modern village. To feed it, Estime had cut roads through the fertile mountains around Belladère, organized collective farms, and told the peasants that the government would provide five carreaux (16 acres) of land, with tools and seed, for each family who would work the land...