A question very much to the point in Latin America is whether a freely elected President who succeeds a dictator can reform his country into democratic stability and how long it will take. Last week the question came up in the Dominican Republic, for more than 30 years the private preserve of the late Rafael Trujillo, where just such a President was inaugurated. The man: Juan Bosch, 53, a scholarly, silver-haired writer, ex-revolutionary and theoretical reformerand Mr. Question Mark himself.
Whence the Wherewithal? From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it...
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