Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was waylaid and slain. It took another six months for his son Ramfis to be sent packing. In the void left by 31 years of Trujillo family tyranny, few cheers greeted the seven-man Council of State that took power in the Dominican Republic last January. Its President, Rafael Bonnelly, a 57-year-old lawyer, had once been an errand boy for Trujillo. The other members include a truckline operator, two heart doctors, a businessman, a Roman Catholic priest-and one of the triggermen who killed Trujillo. The news out of the Dominican Republic...
...time we have trouble, we have less trouble." The biggest pro-Castro party has lost two-thirds of its original 150,000 members. An anti-Communist national labor federation has won away most of the country's organized workers; anti-Communist student groups have won out in the Dominican Students' Federation...
...most strictly command that nowhere in the provinces of the Indies may there ever be received to the holy habit or profession of our order those who are begotten on the side of either one of their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave...
...Sell Himself. Brother Martin ranks among the church's spectacular healers of the sick and comforters of the afflicted. As the convent's almoner, he gave away more than $2,000 a week in food and clothing to Lima's poor. Placed in charge of the Dominican infirmary, he filled up the beds with ailing human derelicts whom he found lying in the streets. Be fore he died in 1639, Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital. He loved animals as well as people, and filled the convent with wounded stray dogs and cats, which...
...tried to get in again recently to gather material for this week's cover story on Cuban Communist Bias Roca. But he could get no answer to his repeated requests for a visa. Instead. Halper had to confine himself to hopping around between Florida. Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, interviewing some of the 200,000 Cubans who have fled since Castro took over. He got a great deal of material, but we were still eager to get our own man into Havana. The solution was easy. Castro is doing his best to keep on good terms with Canada...