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...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...overwhelming approval of President Kennedy's cold war television speech last fortnight, the U.S. was arming surely for any trouble ahead. As the Congress went swiftly to work on emergency measures, the nation's confidence grew, too, with the realization that the real Berlin problem was the civic unrest and economic weakness of Communist East Germany-and that the real discomfiture was the Russians', Despite increasing surveillance by Dictator Walter Ulbricht's Volkspolizei, refugees from East Germany crossed into West Berlin last week at the rate of 1,000 a day; Ulbricht himself flew...
Homely Smells. Friendliness was far from the minds of the residents of a spanking new civic housing development on Price Street in Smethwick (pop. 68,000), when they learned that prospective neighbors were no natives of the black industrial Midlands, but proper natives-from Pakistan, of all places. The father, 28-year-old Sardar Mohammed, is a hardworking factory hand, the mother shy and house proud, the two children positively sparkling...
...sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...
...Opposition. Yet Balaguer made no attempt to curb three booming, middle-of-the-road opposition parties. One led by three returned exiles, reported signing up 800 new members a day, were met by crowds so exuberant that they even embraced the police escorts. Another group, known as the National Civic Union, signed up 2,500 members in a three-day canvass of the non-Trujillo upper classes. The party's first act was to buy a two-page ad in El Caribe criticizing the government. Balaguer answered with a 2,000-word letter agreeing that changes were needed...