Evening star., 1961-10-22

bers spread through is of the
26 provinces.
Their leaders are deceptively
respectable-looking for "revo-
Ilutionaries." They are lawyers
and doctors, the solid pillars
Of middIe-claSS society. They
are not politicians" Ia dirty
word in the Dominican Re-
| public), and in the beginning
considered themselves only a
watchdog committee" for
cleansing public life.
But step by step they have
been drawn into the political
battle. Many are accomplished
orators with the force to put
democratic ideals across to the
masses.
Unlike exile leaders now fill
tering back into the country,
these UCN men and women
bore the full brunt of torture
and discrimination during the
lifetime of GeneraliSsimo Tru-
jillo. That accounts in part
for their undiSputed popu-
larity.
In their headquarters on
the main street of Ciudad
Trujillo-and under the watch
full eyes of government in
formers across the street-they
tell how they spent months in
cramped cells with open wounds
and no sanitation. One lifted
his shirt to reveal a back which
was a map of white scars from
electrode torture.
All opposition groups agree
on the major issue: The old
Trujillo terror machine is still
fully intact, although its op-
erationS are more carefully
concealed. They also agree that
their continued well-being de-
pends upon the sanctions weap-
on the OAS holds over the re-
gime.
/ On the other side, the gov
ernment has amassed powerful
arguments before the OAS am
baSSadorial teams dispatched Il
investigate whether the Do
minican Republic is still g
threat to the peace of the hem
isphere.
The government is more wor'
ried about the effects of ostra'
cism than the particular sane
tions imposed. They easily pur'
, chase guns, gas and trucks il
European markets. But tht
diplomatic cold storage ha'
doomed their internationa
credit standing, they say.
Unemployment Scars
They point to the picturesqu,
harbor now emptied Of foreign
, shipping. They point to mas
unemployment now reaching A
> per cent in the cities. They poin
to the mildewing luxury hotel
with no tourists to keep then
running. They point to thei
. exclusion this year from an.
! share in the huge United State
sugar quota once allotted Il
Cuba and now distributed
: among other sugar producers.
They contend that if thi
J economic stagnation gets an,
deeper Castroite communism
will surely follow Fidel Castro
radio is clearly heard in tn
: volatile interior Of the country
and he has already promise
J thousands Of Czech machin
S guns when revolt comes. =
4 To placate the democrati
e opposition, President Balague
has offered a new coalitio
J. government which gives ther
three-quarters of the cabint
: posts. The President is a quie
unassuming man, a writer b
! profession, and his offers hav
: a ring of sincerity.
But the opposition rejects a
S these arguments and proposal
: 1t has potent arguments o
its own side. 1t says Pres.
a dent Balaguer operates a fror
r for the military dictatorship
t He has no independent suppo
e outside Ramfis Trujillo.
] Opposition leads see the CT
t alition offer as a move to en-
!. broil them. They say that .
matter how many cabinet os
they had, they would not g
y the three vital one-Defens
h Interior and Justice.
s The UCN has counterpru
a posed an entirely new pr
Y, visional government whic
n would postpone elections d.
: next year. hold power for tv
years and create machinery f
a genuine democratic reforl
1t says the Dominican peor
a need at least that time (
1t education in democracy aft
re 81 years of dictatorship.
ID TrujiIlO Hate Deep
70 But what the opposition res
O. ly wants most is to be rid
to the omnipresent Trujillo fami
a. The depth of hatred viii
this clan inspires in its o
,o ponents is hard to believe oil
nc side the country. But it h
m the visitor right in the face.
ec In La Romano, sugar toy
90 along the southern coast, t
nc OAS investigating commiSsi
he and newsmen heard one ste
VET of brutality after another.
20 Sobbing women in black pl
,;c sented United States GAS A
NJ bassador deLesseps Morris
with a wreath Of roses wilt
- in the steamy heat. UCN les
ers trotted out pictures