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...what of Vietnam and Santo Domingo? The New Radicalism necessarily stops short of the teach-in movement, but the cast of characters has not changed radically. Mailer rants, Stone pleads, and gadfly MacDonald flits through the President's arts festival taking signatures on an anti-war petition. One might imagine that the radicals, if such they are, are hugely relieved to be once again in unqualified opposition to a hostile government and not cursed with the opportunity, however slight, of realizing the megalomaniacal tendencies that Mr. Lasch detects but does not name. Praise God, the autonomy of "culture...
...while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo, it was of no concern to him. "The governments in the capital do not mean anything to us," said he. "No matter what changes there, everything is the same to us here...
...farmer reflected a curious detachment in the Dominican Republic four months after the abortive revolution. To the people of the country's farms and villages, Santo Domingo might as well be on Mars. What concerned them most was the sorry shape of the sugar, cocoa and coffee markets, the absence of rain, the shortage of food, the need to get pencils and books for the kids returning to school-in short, the same things that concerned them before Santo Domingo erupted...
Economy Damage. For all this appearance of detachment, the little republic was beginning to feel a deeper deterioration of the already troubled economy. The revolt closed major banks in Santo Domingo's rebel zone, thus hobbling the flow of credit throughout the country. A peso shortage cut down business outlays and salaries, and government tax collections dropped from $15 million to $5 million a month. To help out, the U.S. is putting cash in the hands of laborers through $6,416,000 in emergency grants for road and irrigation projects. That is at best a stopgap move. The country...
...Santo Domingo, of course, that the damage was most evident. Day by day, the civilian population there was growing more restive, and the pressures for settlement increased. Last week, a group of top capital businessmen petitioned Chief OAS Mediator Ambassador Ellsworth T. Bunker to press for an end to the "deterioration of all our activities, economic as well as educational and civic...