Aboard a U.S. Air Force Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled 13 months ago against the oppressive regime of the late Dictator Rafael Trujillo could now be lifted. What the OAS found was a nation torn by violence. Even before their plane crossed the island's coastline there was trouble.
On the highway leading from the airport into the capital, 3,000 workers and students carrying placards reading "Give Us Liberty," "Out with the Trujillos," "We Are Starving," gathered in early morning to await...
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