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...frustrate such intervention, the U.S. had to move militarily into the Dominican civil war. The U.S., said Mann, supported neither the so-called "reactionary" right nor the "constitutionalist" left, but worked for a cease-fire and a long-range solution. Would the U.S. do it again? Of course, suggested Mann. At the same time, it is ridiculous to assume that the U.S. will send in the marines any time, any place someone cries Communists. "A number of Latin American governments have been able to stand up against subversive elements. But it is equally true that other states are vulnerable simply...
...last Yankee property is seized," he cried. "We have blood in our eye, hair on our chest and tobacco in our bladder. There is only one road - war." Soon after came Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, who triggered the vicious little civil war, named himself "constitutionalist" President, and says he is for democracy. "We will fight to the end!" roared Caamaño. "There will not be one step backward...
...enough, was Antonio Guzmán, who was once regarded as a possible neutral choice to head an interim government. The rebel demands made most of the negotiations academic: 1) restoration of the 1963 constitution written under deposed President Juan Bosch, 2) recognition of Bosch's legislature, 3) "constitutionalist" control of the Dominican military, 4) formation of a government of "democratic personalities," and 5) immediate departure of the 15,250-man Inter-American Peace Force...
...even talk to U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett Jr. if only because he was the first to cry Communist about their hard-core cadres. With Bennett cut off, President Johnson sent to the scene former Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, a friend of deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, whose "constitutionalist" symbol the rebels were carrying. But the junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras remembered Martin as a promoter of Bosch and cut him cold. At that point, the U.S. had one pipeline to the junta (Bennett) and one to the rebels (Martin). Trouble was, Bennett and Martin disagreed...
...amendment, which would unquestionably have passed if it had gotten to the floor, was bottled up in the Judiciary Committee by New York liberal Emmanuel Cellar. After the initial uproar and intense agitation for the amendment had died down, Cellar held hearings on the bill and got the establishment-constitutionalist and more responsible church leaders--who had been slow to begin exerting pressure against the school prayer amendments--to convince enough Committee members so that the majority switched from supporting the amendment to opposing it. From then on, the bill was dead. Traditionally conservative delaying methods had enabled liberals...