We show that because of the milder GIM suppression, the four-quark dipenguin
operator contributes to the short distance piece of the D^0-\bar D^0 mixing
amplitude at the same order of magnitude as the box diagram. In addition, we
put an upper bound \Delta m_D^{LDR} \leq 5 \times \Delta m_D^{box} on a
long-distance resonant contribution induced by the penguin mixing.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure; to appear in the proceedings of HADRON'97, BNL,
August 1997; preprint number is adde