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...walkout was supported by ex-President Juan Bosch and proved highly effective. Factories and sugar mills shut down, dock workers stomped off their jobs, and even Santo Domingo's airport had to be closed. With the nation headed toward full paralysis, Rivera Caminero finally took the hint. Turning control of the armed forces over to Colonel Enrique Perez y Perez, he sailed off to the U.S. aboard a Dominican Navy frigate...
That didn't satisfy the leftists, who this time were apparently determined to try to break the army's power completely. At week's end, the general strike was still on, and gunfire rattled through the streets of Santo Domingo...
...DREAMS OF REASON by Xavier Domingo. 148 pages. Braziller...
...Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"-the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirts-in terms of a real nightmare...
...Domingo assumes that everyone re members that in the fall of 1961, France was suffering one of its periodic nervous breakdowns. The French army had fought seven years to persuade Algerians that they were Frenchmen, while in Paris, 200,000 Algerians living in jerry-built Afro-Islamic Harlems were not allowed to be Parisians. For them the dirty work and a diet of boiled cabbage, of terror and reprisal, of po lice chasing Algerians into the Metro and beating them up underground, and of the noise of distant plastic bombs to make it all exciting...