Intervention in the CarribbeanThe 1965 U. S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U. S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Finally, its outcome was that rare feat in the annals of diplomacy a peaceful political settlement of a civil war. Here for the first time is the full story of that