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Seventeen years after U.S. troops were sent to the Dominican Republic to prevent what Washington feared might be "another Cuba," the politically volatile Caribbean nation (pop. 5.7 million) last week demonstrated the resilience of its fledgling democracy. Moderate Social Democrat Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) became the country's fourth freely elected President since the assassination of Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
...election campaign was the most hotly contested in the Dominican Republic's turbulent 138-year history. Despite persistent rumors of a right-wing military coup, some 77% of the country's 2.6 million eligible voters waited through intermittent showers for as long as eight hours to cast their ballots...
...trim, well-dressed lawyer from Santiago, Jorge Blanco, 55, advocates a mix of social liberalism and fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
Most of the entrants, of course, were United States citizens--but there are plenty of others: 38 from Japan. 15 from Bermuda, two from Saudi Arabia and one each from Australia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic...and more...
...Viet Nam. "In some ways," he says, "the risks here are greater, but that is because there are still chances to see and report on both sides in this conflict." Longtime Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich, reporting from Nicaragua, draws a different parallel: to the 1965 U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic. "Some say the invasion restored democracy," says Diederich; "others say it slowed its return. But it was costly...