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...dimly lighted third-floor office in downtown Santo Domingo, Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó and five of his rebel lieutenants quietly put their signatures on a document entitled the Dominican Act of Reconciliation. A few hours later, in the Dominican Congressional Palace across town, four other officers, who had supported the loyalist junta of Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barrera, added their names with equal severity. Thus, without fanfare or even much reconciliation, ended the bloody civil war that began April 24, took the lives of 3,000 Dominicans and 31 U.S. servicemen, and involved...
Brink of an Abyss. At week's end, in a brief ceremony at the National Palace in downtown Santo Domingo, García-Godoy was officially installed as his country's 47th President. He is, by all accounts, an able, well-regarded man: a middle-of-the-road liberal and a foreign minister under ex-President Juan Bosch. "We are a country," said García-Godoy in his inaugural speech, "at the brink of an abyss. We must react with honest administration, intensive popular education, the establishment of a civil service, an agrarian reform, an armed forces...
...Vietnam? Santo Domingo? No, Rand was writing about reporters in Korea, and about the press corps that had covered the earlier Communist takeover in China. Originally published in a 1954 issue of Nieman Reports, the magazine put out by Nieman Fellows at Harvard, Rand's comments have been reprinted in Reporting the News (Belknap; $6.50), an anthology of such essays selected by former Nieman Curator Louis Lyons. Spanning almost 20 years, most of the articles now seem dated. Rand's modest faultfinding is as contemporary as the latest dateline...
...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...
...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...