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...Marcos Perez Jimenez and Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla just before their downfalls. Signed by all six bishops of the Dominican Republic, the letter was a politely furious response to the imprisonment of 2,000 leading citizens packed off to La Victoria jail on the outskirts of Ciudad Trujillo and a concentration camp at Finca del Diablo, 20 miles north of the capital...
...them and handed them 30-year sentences. Departing from normal practice, U.S. State Department Spokesman Lincoln White volunteered that the U.S. was "concerned" about the effect of the arrest of plotters on "basic humanitarian principles in the Americas." But the U.S. Navy, not keyed in, sent seven ships to Ciudad Trujillo harbor to let the crews have liberty ashore. The imposing sight of the anchored U.S. Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, with its jets ready on the flight deck, and of bluejackets all over the streets, gave most Dominicans the impression that the U.S. was backing Trujillo...
...McLaughlin mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells visitors. To avoid the bother of reading...
Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
Mutual officials, who were not told about the deal, said they first got wind of it when Newscaster Robert F. Hurleigh (now Mutual president) went on a press junket to Ciudad Trujillo last May, was confronted with the deal by a Trujillo aide. Shocked and angry, Mutual went to the Justice Department. Trujillo's lawyer also went to the Justice Department after he failed to get the money back from Guterma, turned over the alleged contract with Trujillo...