Word: constanza
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...scudded across the Caribbean last week. For the most part, it was a shouting war, between the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It was, in a way, a shooting war too, as Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo sent a 350-man force into the hills around the Dominican Republic town of Constanza to hunt down 20-odd survivors of a Cuba-based airborne rebellion (TIME, July 6). At the same time, Trujillo readied his guns-and bought new ones-to fight off a new invasion he said was headed his way from Cuba and Venezuela...
...aggressors want to see their beards and brains flying like butterflies, let them approach the shores of the Dominican Republic," warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces-one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast-put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said...
Meeting a Spy. Set down at Constanza by Juan de Dios Ventura Simó, a Dominican air-force captain who purportedly defected to Trujillo's Cuba-based opponents in May, the C46 load of rebels fanned out into the hills to begin a hot running fight. Five days later, Ventura Simó, freshly decorated and newly promoted to colonel, sat down in Ciudad Trujillo at a government microphone to read a statement that he had been a spy all along, had delivered the rebels into a trap. After the broadcast he appeared at a Foreign Ministry reception...
Trujillo's government announced that Trujillo himself went to the Constanza area to oversee the counterattack, that Rebel Commander (and onetime Castro Captain) Enrique Jiménes Moya was killed. The rebels fought back with reports that Trujillo was nervously hiding out at San Isidro Air Base, that Jiménes Moya was still alive and fighting, that Pilot Ventura Simó had been executed by a San Isidro firing squad when his propaganda value had been used...
...rebels were still stubbornly refusing to be mopped up in the hills around Constanza; Dominican intelligence said it had learned that a new 1,000-man invasion force, financed with $8,000,000 provided by Cuba's Trujillo-hating Fidel Castro, was preparing to board a pair of U.S. war-surplus landing ships in Cuba's Oriente province for a new invasion. Feeding the fire at week's end, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic and had its U.N. delegate announce that he would go before the U.N. to ask world action in support...