Juan Bosch, a former president of the Dominican Republic whose name is forever linked to the U.S. invasion of that island nation in 1965, died Thursday in Santo Domingo after a long hospitalization.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Juan Bosch, a former president whose influence in Dominican politics stretched across half a century despite his only seven months in office, died yesterday.

JUAN BOSCH, who has died aged 92, ... La Manosa (The Minx), a year later. He was, for a while, literary editor of the Santo Domingo daily newspaper Listin Diario.