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JOHNSON SINKS DEEPER INTO THE MORASS
Johnson has succeeded in converting the truce in Santo Domingo into a "stabilized crisis." This is the comforting word from the State Department. po, re ‘
. Meanwhile, Saigon sources have confirmed the report that. during June some 25,000 additional U.S. troops are to be landed in Vietnam as Johnson escalates the "consolidated impasse" there closer toward a Korean=-size conflict and the thin border line of nuclear war e
In Santo Domingo, efforts were being made:to bring down the curtain on the blood-splashed scene. But reports continued to appear in the European press of arrests mounting into the thousands and summary executions as the generals backed by Johnson sought to. consolidate their positions as puppets of. the military colossus that had brought the Big Stick down.
The image offered by the United States in Santo Domingo was not one to grace the pages of American history. A description by Marcel Niedergang in the May 22 Paris daily Le Monde of a press con=ference held in Santo Domingo by one of Johnson's Close advisers will illustrate the image that is ‘Sinking into world consciousness:
"Thursday evening [May 20] we had the painful spectacle of. a Subsecretary of State, a close collaborator of Mr. Johnson, plunged into the deepest embarrassment. Nervous, pale, his jaws set, Mr. Cyrus Vance faced the journalists. Ina voice that was dry at first, he categorically denied the news published in some North American papers concerning specific cases of collusion between the American troops and the forces of the junta.
"ttt is false,' Mr. Vance said, 'that General Imbert!s forces crossed the American lines, false that our troops aided these forces either directly or indirectly. We only gave them two generators and two helicopters. False that our helicopters participated in the fighting. Our helicopters were only used to transport people of the two camps for negotiations. It is false that the Marines widened the international zone and false that our troops fired on the forces of Colonel Caamano north of the corridor,!
After this energetic and unequivocal statement, the American journalists passed to the counteroffensive, With but few exceptions, the special correspondents of the American papers are serious, scrupulously honest and competent. To them a spade is a spade and American neutrality in the conflict is a lie. Once again they patiently explained to the seething Subsecretary of State that they had proofs -- films or photos -- of specific cases of direct intervention or collusion, Standing at the side of Mr. Vance, small,
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pale, wearing large tortoise-shell glasses, General Palmer, commander in chief of the American forces, looked imploringly at the Secretary of State, who was becoming more and more irritated. ‘I don't know, the general said in a weak voice, "Perhaps Itm not up to date,!
tHow can you talk about neutrality when the corridor hela by the Marines cuts the poor areas in two, letting General Imbert calmly clean up the north before attacking the south?! asked one of them. Finally Mr. Vance ended the conference. ‘It's only a matter of isolated incidents. Our troops have official instructions,'"
Among the bits of evidence offered by Niedergang in this . same dispatch proving American cdéllusion with the counterrevolution~ ary generals is the following:
Many fighters were in the industrial quarter where General Imbert moved house to house with tanks to crush the rebellion. There was seemingly no escape since the area was. sealed off by American troops, counterrevolutionary troops and the Isabela and Ozama rivers. It was then discovered that some of the armed civilians were escap-~ing the encirclement by crawling through four-foot storm sewers passing under the "American" corridor. When the Americans discovered this they sealed_up the entrances with barbed wire.
Johnson's belief in the capacity of the Great Lie to cover up his virtual annexation of the Dominican Republic to the Great Society appeared to be unshaken despite the world-wide anger and condemnation. As_a token of the island's new status, he sent seventy-five FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation ~- “America's secret political police] agents to Santo Domingo, according to press reports. It was not clear whether they were to make "security checks" on candidates for the government that Johnson is democratically selecting. according to his personal whims or whether they were to make —. security checks on Central Intelligence Agents operating in Santo Domingo. —
The reverbations of the U.S.-invasion of the Dominican Repub-= lic continued to mount in Latin America, What began as protest demonstrations in Colombia grew into a significant challenge to the dictatorial government. In Brazil unrest appeared to be rising again to the surface and dictator Castelo Branco was discovering fresh "Communist plots" on all sides. In Argentina there were rumblings throughout the country. In Guatemala a vice-minister was assassinated. And in Bolivia the country stood at the verge of civil war. wi
The U.S. occupation of Santo Domingo seemed to have touched off a chain reaction. Whether this would lead to a major political explosion’ remained to be.seen but smoke was rising among many powder kegs. -
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