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...Republic, Father of the New Fatherland, Chief Protector of the Dominican Working Class, Genius of Peace, was gone, his body, grotesquely disfigured by 27 bullet wounds, stuffed in the trunk of the soon-to-be-abandoned car belonging to a disgruntled general named Juan Tomás Diaz. Outlived among the world's strongmen by Portugal's milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with...
...fresh, uncommitted exile army was somewhere in the Caribbean, and that a new landing was on the way. Evidence indicated that it was a phantom army; the only force of any size left intact was a 167-man commando outfit led by an ex-Castro aide, Captain Nino Diaz. On invasion day, Diaz opened his sealed orders en route to Cuba, saw that the CIA plan called for a diversionary landing at an unfamiliar spot in Camaguey province instead of Oriente province, a region that Diaz knew well. Disgusted, Diaz turned back to Florida with...
...even Maximum Leader Castro cannot afford to ignore the church. In the past five years, it has been a rallying point for enemies of dictators who fell in Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia. Last week, after pro-Communist gangs attacked crowds leaving Havana Cathedral, Archbishop Diaz threatened that the Cuban Catholic Church might declare itself officially "in silence"-as it is behind the Iron Curtain. As the Castro-Catholic battle got hotter, church attendance showed a sharp and significant upturn...
...Signed by Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 80, Archbishop of Havana and Primate of Cuba; Santiago Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes, who saved Castro's life in 1953 when he was fleeing the wrath of Dictator Fulgencio Batista after an abortive uprising; the Vatican-appointed Apostolic Administrator, Evelio Diaz; and six other bishops...
Married. Emma Castro Ruz, 24, youngest sister of Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro; and Victor Lomeli Delgado, a Mexican engineer; by the Archbishop Coadjutor, Msgr. Evelio Diaz y Cia, in Havana. Dressed in his customary fatigues, and bobbling a pistol on his right hip, Fidel showed up 20 minutes late for the wedding, was applauded and cheered as he entered the cathedral...