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No Cash. Typically, the end seemed close at hand—and yet not quite within grasp. The bitter hatred between the loyalist forces of General Antonio Imbert Barrera and Colonel Francisco Camaaño Deñó's rebels had hardly diminished. The rebels claimed to want a provisional government; yet rebel youths were taking daily training in street fighting and guerrilla warfare—under the leadership of men of the Castroite 14th-of-June group. Last week Loyalist Imbert's radio was howling at the OAS, issuing scare warnings of imminent violence, insisting that his junta was in fact "the provisional government of the Dominican Republic." The OAS countered with pressure. Imbert has received no U.S. cash to pay the $10 million July salaries of his government, and now the OAS warned that there would be no further U.S. money for his unrecognized regime. At week's end—for the first time since the revolt—rebel and loyalist representatives met at an OAS conference table for preliminary settlement talks.