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...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...
...supervised elections, Caamaño answered with a flat no. The most he would do was appoint a six-man team to talk to the OAS. On the rebel team, interestingly 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...
...Sudan could use a new Messiah. Dictator Ibrahim Abboud, the army general who grabbed power in 1958, was overthrown last fall, and Interim Prime Minister Serr el Khatim el Khalifa has been hard put to hold the country together. The Negro south, long restive, went into open rebellion against Arab rule, and its demands for independence forced Khalifa to go ahead with the balloting only in the northern two-thirds of the nation. A leftist minority within his own Cabinet tried to sabotage the elections altogether and seize power for itself. Under heavy leftist pressure, Khalifa turned the nation into...
...There are temporary basketball courts for teenagers built on the rubble. They are heavily used. A simple thing like that is also unusual in renewal projects, where insurance and supervision obstacles often prevent interim use of cleared sites...
Advertising Boycott. Meanwhile, there have been feeble attempts to supply Baltimore with an interim newspaper. The Guild puts out a small daily tabloid, the Baltimore Banner, for which Sun staffers scrape up news from radio and television. But local merchants, friendly to the Sun, provide little advertising and the Banner is losing more than $4,000 a week. A second daily, the New Baltimore Morning Herald, published by Johns Hopkins students' with coed assistance on weekends, has also been hard put to find advertising in a town where the Sun has long been king. But the city...