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...Balaguer!" The Caribbean republic was almost paralyzed. Steel shutters banged shut on shops; trees were felled across streets to block public transport. Mobs roamed the hot, narrow sidewalks and streets of Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), taunting cops and soldiers-who responded with tear gas and noise grenades-with the cry: "Boo Boo Balaguer...
...Santo Domingo (known for 25 years as Ciudad Trujillo), a crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family...
...Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded 20 pilots at San Isidro, the main airbase in Ciudad Trujillo, to fly to Santiago...
...Trujillos flew out of Ciudad Trujillo, two principal opposition leaders-the National Civic Union's Viriato Fiallo and the 14th of June's Manuel Tavárez-flew in from San Juan. They found the road from airport to city a sea of celebrators, flinging flowers, weeping, clapping hands, tooting whistles. At the bridge that forms the main entrance to the city, more than 100,000 people joyfully stopped the caravan...
...over town the Trujillo statues and street signs came down. President Balaguer rushed a measure through Congress changing Ciudad Trujillo back to the name Columbus gave it, Santo Domingo. From jubilation, mobs turned to selective looting, cleaning out homes and businesses of Trujillos and their friends...