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...more and more of the Trujillos' grisly secrets are put before the public. Attorney General Garcia Vasquez reports that two of the busiest murder factories were located in the capital's environs-"La Carenta" (The Forty), so-called because it was on 40th Street in Santo Domingo, and "Kilometer Nine," beside a highway nine kilometers east of the capital. Both were run by the S.I.M., and both were equipped with relatively unsophisticated but highly effective torture instruments. One device was an electric chair used both for shocking and for slow electrocution...
VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which...
Point-Blank. Warning darkly of a "Communist plot," Rodriguez Echavarria sent air force troops into the streets of Santo Domingo last week with orders to shoot to kill in case of trouble. They found trouble at the headquarters of the National Civic Union (U.C.N.), the country's strongest anti-Trujillo organization...
...threw up barricades. At the palace Rodriguez Echavarria arrived to face the Council with 100 troops and an ultimatum: "The Council is not working very well. I have no confidence in it." His men leveled their guns at the Council members, hustled them off to a house at Santo Domingo's San Isidro airbase...
...Along the sea wall in Santo Domingo crowds hopefully awaited the return of U.S. Navy warships, which once before guaranteed the republic's budding democracy. But in Washington, with the Punta del Este meeting on Cuba about to begin, President Kennedy decided on less conspicuous muscle flexing. U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Calvin Hill Jr., who was in Washington to advise on resuming help to the Dominicans, was sent back to his post with orders to put pressure on Rodriguez Echavarria...