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GRISOLIA, ALTHOUGH ALSO DISHEARTENED, SHOVED MORE FORTITUDE. HE SAID THAT THERE MUSTVICTOR"VANQUISHED" IN THE STRUGGLE OR ELSE THERE WOULDEW CRISIS. RISOLIA CLEARLYTHAT HE DISAGREED WITH THE "CONCESSIONS" MOW BEING GRANTED THE REBELS IN THE NAME OF "NEUTRALITY". HE ALSO OBSERVED THAT ANTONIO GUZMAN WAS COMPLETELY SUBSERVIENT TO JUAN BOSCH AND THEREFOREISE CHOICE TO BE THE LEADER OF AN INTERIM GOVERNMENT. ANOTHER POINT RAISED BY GRISOLIA WAS THAT THE ISSUE OF3 CONSTITUTION HAD 3EC0ME SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ONE THAT IT WOULD NOT WORK.'
THE US AM3ASSADOR COMMENTED THAT ALTHOUGH POSTIGO AND GRISOLIA ARE NOT STRONG PERSONALITIES, THEY ARE WIDELY RESPECTED AND COULD SWING SUBSTANTIAL OPINION IN FAVORTHIRD VIEWPOINT."
A POSSIBLE THIRD VIEWPOINT IS THAT OF THE SANTIAGO CIVIC LEADERS WHO AREEW POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE TO THE PRESENTSITUATION. THE US EMBASSY NOTES THAT THIS GROUP COULD PERHAPS SERVEOUNTERWEIGHT TO IMBERT. HOWEVER, AT PRESENT THE GROUP IS TOO LIMITED IN GEOGRAPHIC AND POLITICAL SCOPE TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER IN ITSELF. IT PRIMARILY REPRESENTS BUSINESS, BANKING ANDIN THE SANTIAGO REGION, ALTHOUGH IT DOES INCLUDE SEVERAL PEOPLE WHOENSE OF COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITYUTLOOK. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GROUP, WHO MET WITH THE USYESTERDAY, SAID THEY WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT SUCH PARTISANS OF BOSCH'S DOMINICAN REVOLUTIONARY PARTY AS JULIO POSTIGO. THE GROUP FEAREDAND THE AMSASSADOR CONCURREDHAT THE SITUATION WILL GET. WORSE IF THE STALEMATE CONTINUES AND THAT ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS AND* POSSIBLE REBEL OFFENSIVES IN THE INTERIOR MIGHT FOLLOW. AN UNDETERMINED FACTOR CONCERNING THIS GROUPS EFFECTIVENESS IS WHETHER IT WILL STAND UP TO IM3ERT IF HE BEGINS TO PLAY ROUGH.
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MEANWHILE, THERE ARE CONFLICTING REPORTS AS TO WHETHER ARGENTINA WILL OR WILL NOTILITARY CONTIGENT TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. BUENOS AIRES HAS BEEN RIFE WITH SPECULATION ON THIS SU3JECT. EARLIER THERE WERE SOME INDICATIONS THAT THE ILLIA GOVERNMENT MIGHTONTINGENT SO AS TO REDUCE THE MILITARY PRESSURE THAT WAS BUILDING
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