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...decision set in motion a widely based team of TIME staffers. Notable among them were Caribbean Correspondent Richard Duncan and veteran Santo Domingo Stringer Bernard Diederich, who was on a brief assignment in New York. The two flew to Puerto Rico, and since all civilian access to the Dominican Republic was closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer...
...neared, communications became-next to bullet dodging-the major problem. Cable traffic was out, telephone service spotty. Duncan finally managed to get the copy out, mostly by courier to San Juan, thence by Teletype and telephone to New York. On Saturday, Caribbean Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold flew to Santo Domingo aboard a Navy supply plane, got his own view of the situation, picked up the final takes of the Duncan-Diederich files, and made it back to San Juan on the last plane...
...Beneficent Intuition. Fully aware that another Communist island fortress, like Cuba, could sprout in the Caribbean, the President snapped into action at the first sporadic crackles of gunfire in Santo Domingo. Into the waters off the Dominican Republic, he ordered a task force of six ships carrying an assault detachment of 1,800 marines; as a contingency, he alerted Army airborne troops at Fort Bragg...
...dispatching troops early and swiftly to Santo Domingo, Johnson seemed to be following a correct and beneficent intuition. For by week's end it was clear that the Dominican war had already become a fateful turning point, that the fight to prevent a new Communist presence in the hemisphere would have to be decided then and there...
...tanks with 90-mm. cannon and armored troop carriers, the 2nd Battalion of the 6th U.S. Marines rolled across the red dust of a once trim polo field on the western outskirts of Santo Domingo and moved cautiously into the war-torn capital of the Dominican Republic. As the columns churned down Avenida Independencia, past the empty side streets, people suddenly appeared in windows and doorways. Some waved. Others stared. A few spoke. "I wish the Americans would take us over," muttered a woman. A man near by sighed and nodded. "Since they are here, we had better take advantage...