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Time may be drawing short for the Trujillo clan, still clinging grimly to the Dominican Republic. For five days last week, uncontrolled riots swept the island fief now commanded by the dictator's son and heir. Ramfis Trujillo Jr. Mobs of students swarmed off the university campus in Ciudad Trujillo, smashing statues of the dead tyrant and shouting "Viva la revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them...
When the OAS cavalcade finally came down the road, 1,000 bedraggled people broke through police lines to engulf the cars and cheer the delegates. In Ciudad Trujillo, the biggest opposition group, the Union Civica, called for three days of mourning with a shutdown of all commerce. At night, military police, backed by tanks, patrolled the streets...
...what they are) were not expected to. The killings were the ugliest blot to date on the liberalized regime of Ramfis Trujillo, who took over when his dictator father was assassinated three months ago. They were also a reminder that, while Ramfis may have eased things up in the Ciudad Trujillo capital, life in the isolated back country remains as tightly controlled as before...
...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...