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...weaknesses of Kahn's models in relation to crises such as Vietnam or Santo Domingo come out inadvertantly in his own work. He suggests what to do to the "principal opponent"; but one of the major problems in recent crises has been determining who the opponent is. Similarly, Kahn admits that the development and outcome of a war depends to a great extent "on how and why the war began." Yet our Vietnam policy seems to have been formulated with Kahn-type "abstract" categories rather than with these concrete elements in mind. Thus James Reston criticized the government's apparent...
...first glow of dawn was just brightening the sky over Santo Domingo when a force of 17 U.S. tanks and 2,000 OAS troops in full battle dress rolled into the city's downtown rebel zone. Within an hour, the OAS soldiers set up sandbagged emplacements throughout the l-sq.-mi. stronghold that leftist rebel partisans still call "sacred revolutionary soil." Shouted curses and a few harmless sniper shots greeted the troops. Most of the city's 500,000 frightened citizens could give thanks that the OAS was acting in the nick of time to prevent the Dominican...
...chief architect of the tenuous Dominican truce. In an eleventh-hour session at the National Palace, Bunker strongly reminded Garcia-Godoy that alienating the military was hardly the way to run a government of reconciliation. He got the President, and later Rivera Caminero, to agree on the pacification of Santo Domingo through a house-to-house arms search by military, police and civilian teams. Garcia-Godoy then ordered OAS troops into the rebel area to make sure that the searchers would be able to do their jobs...
Ambassador Bunker's skilled patchwork may have forestalled major trouble, but it did little to soothe the violent hatreds that still divide the country. Outside Santo Domingo last week, a group of goons machine-gunned the car of a moderate provincial governor, killing him and seriously wounding three companions. In the capital, the Public Works Ministry was ransacked and machine-gunned by a 15-man group that identified itself as the "Democratic Anti-Communist Commando No. 1." At week's end, there were reports of similar raids in the usually placid interior city of Santiago...
...Dominican government of reconciliation led by Héctor Garcia-Godoy is now seven weeks old, and thus far it has reconciled no one. In the bullet-pocked capital of Santo Domingo ex-President Juan Bosch, in whose name the original civil war was launched returned home talking about "strikes demonstrations and appeals" to "drive out" the 10,300 U.S. paratroopers and Latin American soldiers of the OAS peace-keeping force. Bosch's presence has inflamed the left and enraged the right-to the point where the only thing that stands between Garcia-Godoy and renewed civil...