Word: ciudad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Cristóbal farm, 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo...
...severely limited. Today, the group which is usually the backbone of a stable government is virtually nonexistent. Moderate personal gains for peasants and workers have been accompanied by enormous extravagances and huge profits for the dictator and his associates. Policemen on every corner, capricious defamation in the pages of Ciudad Trujillo's one newspaper, and sudden arrest, have proven necessary to preserve the government...
Back to Rome. Behind the apparent surrender lay a long and bitter assault on the church by Trujillo. The man most responsible for awakening the hierarchy last year was Papal Nuncio Lino Zanini who arrived in Ciudad Trujillo only three months before the pastoral, looked around and told the bishops to fight. After the pastoral, the nuncio received anonymous letters threatening his life. Boston-born Bishop Thomas Reilly found his residence encircled by secret police goons, was trailed wherever he went, was threatened with expulsion, even violent death...
After signing a property settlement (terms undisclosed) with Playwright Arthur Miller in Manhattan, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe flitted off to Ciudad Juárez for a south-of-the-border, quickie coup de grâce to their improbable four-year marriage. Marilyn sounded little upset by her sudden move. "I would love to have a plate of tacos and enchiladas" she said...
...Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...