BALAGUER'S HEADACHES WASHINGTON TIMES - 20 OCTOBER 1986

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
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• Publication Date: October 20, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 19861 PAGE. 3
BaIaguer's headaches
The prgmise.of.a returnto~..
prbsperity that accompanied the
August inauguration of the Domi
,gican Republic's President
Joaquin Balaguer has soured with
the discovery that virtually the
entire nationai.treasury was emp-
tied by the'administration of his
predecessor, Salvador Jorge
Blanco.
Mr. Balaguer's efforts. to pro-
mote US.' investment and stim-
ulate . employment:are being ham
pered by the low world price for
sugar.and,the cuts. that have
talcen'place?iri recent years in the
;l;J S,~;ug4 import quota. The
situation maybe tempting to
Fidel Castro, who has intimate re-
lations with the Dominican Com-
munist Party.: '
Revelations by a"member of
the Dominican Communist Party
that scores of young communists
have received extensive training
in terrorism and guerrilla war=
fare in Nicaragua - followed by
field ,experience in El Salvador
. with..the~Farabundo Marti insur-
gents- have caused U,S. intelli-
jgence,exiiert$.to xamine.care-.
fully the recent tour of Eastern
europe by' Narcisi o Isa Conde.
The Dominican Communist Party
chief+has personally been re-
cruiting terrorism trainees; his
recent protracted tour of Bul-
garia; Czechoslovakia and other
Warsaw Pact stales may portend
violent protests ahead to under-
mine the Balaguer administra-
don.
In Santo Domingo, intelligence
officials estimate that at least 300
Dominican communists have .
undergone terrorist training. Mi.'
Isa Conde's visits may have in-
cluded recruiting efforts among
Dominican students abroad, as
well as requests for aid from the
East European communist par-
ties. A statement by one of the
parties said the discussions cov-
ered "efforts of the Dominican
Communist Party for unification
of the leftist and progressive
forces in that country and about
the struggle*of the Dominican
cc LTimunists a$ap t impoi .Alism
a:-,d reaction.
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