Word: ciudad
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...Invitation. In Ciudad Trujillo, President Joaquin Balaguer immediately invited the OAS investigators to return and see for themselves. He also sent personal invitations to a number of leading Latin American jurists to attend the trial of the accused assassins of Dictator Trujillo...
...Ciudad Trujillo, six weeks after Dictator Trujillo's assassination, is a far different place than it was under the tyrant who renamed it when he came to power in 1930-or so it seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were...
...Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to let the Organization of American States send in a team of investigators to see how well he was behaving...
...Republic, got firm assent from key nations. As the threat of Ramfis Trujillo's reprisals grew stronger at week's end, the U.S. served notice that it wanted the era of terror ended. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White reported that "unwarranted repression" was being employed in Ciudad Trujillo "against anyone who is felt to be not loyal to the regime." Pointedly, he opened the possibility that U.S. forces, already gathering in the Caribbean, might move in to protect U.S. lives "should this situation erupt...
Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE...