Word: ctor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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. Would he ever return to the Dominican Republic? Generalissimo Héctor Trujillo was asked. He answered nonchalantly, sure: "After all, it's our country...
Desperate Bid. For 31 years, up to last week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate...
...backing Ramfis, in the hope that he could bloodlessly "democratize" Trujillo-land, the U.S. made it a condition that Uncles Héctor and Arismendi stay away. They did for a while, then began to complain that young Ramfis was frittering away their fief, and blustered home to stop him. At that point, Ramfis gave up. After all, he had a reported $500 million stashed away in solid currencies in overseas banks. So he resigned as armed forces chief of staff and embarked with a consoling German blonde on the family yacht Angelita, bound first for the nearby island...
Uncles Héctor and Arismendi were even angrier. "The boy is giving away the island," raged General Arismendi, and, over Ramfis' protests, the two flew home. Woodward was left with no alternative but to make an embarrassing return trip to the OAS to ask that action on his request be delayed "indefinitely." Ramfis resigned as armed forces chief of staff, and a communiqué in his own handwriting said that he had boarded the Angelita and sailed for Europe. At week's end Secretary of State Rusk announced worriedly: "It appears that [Héctor and Arismendi...
...territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts. Week's toll: four dead, scores injured. At the height of the disorders, Washington confirmed that two brothers of the slain dictator. Héctor and José Arismendi Trujillo, had been granted U.S. transit visas for use on their way to somewhere else...