The cover of the June 1981 issue of Future life. There’s something about a flimsy NBC suit, the triangular handguard version of M16 and Ray Bans that takes you back to the world of imagined postapocalyptic adventure.

Photograph shot by Jack Lartz (USIA) in Santo Domingo, during the Dominican Intervention of 1965. After waves of bloodshed had buffeted in the country in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict over the constitution, this welcome inversion of the more commonly heard “Yankee go home” message was not an uncommon sentiment in the Dominican capital.