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Genocidas & Torturers. Real news was light last week: the OAS peace talks remained stalemated, and middle-reading liberal Héctor García Godoy continued to be the best bet for provisional President. Meantime, Junta General Antonio Imbert Barreras and Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó were holding their fire. Not so the new scandal press. After having its fun with General Palmer, Patria (which claims 7,000 readers) ran a picture of a Dominican beauty dancing cheek to cheek with a "Yankee invader." Read the caption darkly: "She will pay for her collaboration." The soldier...
Washed-Up Diplomats. Backing up the dailies is the rebel Radio Santo Domingo, which calls Imbert a "hog-jawed monster." Last week it broadcast a false report that Imbert's wife had ducked out to Puerto Rico and was awaiting her husband. "The flight has begun," the commentator chirruped, "and just as in the height of the Trujillo reign, it is the women and children first, and then the murderers of the people." On a more modest level are quippy posters and house organs put out by various political parties, including a rebel sheet that uses as its slogan...
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...
...appear to hinder OAS negotiations. García Godoy campaigned around town like a practiced ward heeler, even began considering Cabinet members while waiting impatiently for the formal announcement of his appointment. As one OAS meeting followed another, Caamaño seemed to back García Godoy while Imbert continued to stall. The final choice may come next week-or next month. For all its frustration, the U.S. is still certain that it is now only a matter of time before both sides agree on a name...
...prize-winning novelist, Anderson-Imbert has also written a History of Spanish-American Literature. He taught at Argentine universities until 1947 when he came to this country; at present he is on the faculty of the University of Michigan. He is 55 years...