Word: loyalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...optimists in the Dominican Republic; many Dominicans have resigned themselves to the grim prospect of never seeing real peace in their lifetime. Last week, despite all the diplomatic maneuvering and the best intentions of Interim President Héctor Garcia-Godoy, the visceral hatred between rebel left and loyalist right exploded in yet another ugly little fire fight and a series of riots and demonstrations that left 34 dead, scores wounded. Once again, only the forceful intervention of OAS troops kept the tiny war-scarred country from renewed civil...
...Santiago, 120 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, were Rebel Commander Francisco Caamaño Deño and 90 members of the rebel elite, all armed to the teeth. Caamaño had been warned about going by President García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took off in a convoy of 31 cars. In Santiago, the group swaggered around town, waving their guns, disarming cops and bullying civilians. After the memorial service, they went on to breakfast at Santiago's Hotel Matum, a small two-story hilltop...
...battalions of the U.S. 82nd Airborne and two brigades of Latin American soldiers-moved into the downtown area last week on the specific orders of Provisional President Hector Garcia-Godoy. In the previous two weeks, at least 15 Dominicans had been killed amid a series of bitter clashes between loyalist Dominican troops and Castroite rebels, who had refused to surrender their arms. Now the OAS would oversee the disarming...
...takeover downtown was as much intended to calm the loyalist military as it was to knock rebel heads. For weeks, the soldiers, led by Armed Forces Chief Rivera Caminero, have been muttering angrily that President Garcia-Godoy was too soft on the left, was loading his Cabinet with rebels, and failing to collect rebel arms. The rebels, in turn, have been loudly crying for Garcia-Godoy to fire Rivera Caminero and the rest of the service chiefs for their so-called "genocide" early in the civil war. At one point, Garcia-Godoy came out of a four-hour Cabinet meeting...
Lost Resolution. The government's obduracy was backed by a quarantine so effective that not even mail, much less provisions, came aboard the ships. The unity of the Nore began to dissolve; defecting ships cut their lines at night and drifted away; loyalist cells formed in the mutinous crews, and there were bloody fights aboard. By lune, the great mutiny was over, a victim of its own irresolution. The Admiralty briskly hanged Parker and 35 other mutineers with a minimum of legal niceties and got back to the wars...