Word: dominican
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After 30 years of collaborating with Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican Republic's Roman Catholic hierarchy broke sharply with the strong-man last year. In a pastoral letter signed by all six of the country's bishops in January, the church called clearly and unequivocally for "freedom of conscience, press and assembly," for a climate of liberty, for an end to "anonymous denunciations." Last week the news filtered up from the Byzantine depths of Trujillo's country that the church had been forced to bend to the dictator again...
...last surviving example of the medal-jangling school of self-enriching Latin American dictators is executing a cynical maneuver. After 31 years, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a strongman of the extreme right, is turning left. He does so not from conviction, but in an angry tyrant's reaction to the determination of his neighbors-including the U.S.-to be finished with him, and to the mounting desire of his own people to do away with...
Most startling of Trujillo's moves to the left is his sudden about-face on Fidel Castro, who two years ago sent revolutionaries to invade the Dominican Republic. Two months ago Trujillo reportedly sent a pair of trusted henchmen to a secret meeting in eastern Cuba with Castro emissaries. The result: a tentative non-aggression agreement between the two dictators and, further, possible future cooperation against common enemies, such as Venezuela's moderate President Romulo Betancourt...
...biggest question mark hanging over Trujillo is the Dominican army, well fed, well trained, well equipped. A large part of the top brass is bound personally to Trujillo. But others in the middle echelons are increasingly worried about what happens to them if the old man goes, now are said to listen thoughtfully to anti-Trujillo talk. Helping their speculations along are two opposition hopes. One is that an attempt to assassinate the tyrant will succeed. In the past year, two attempts have been made: two months ago an escort car in his motorcade through the countryside was shot...
Arthritis & Wounds. Writing for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the surgeon-anthropologist describes how he got Joseph Farland, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, to talk the Dominicans into opening the tomb in 1959. "With exacting protocol, three keys, a special committee including the Archbishop, scholars, Dominican scientists, state officials and, of course, a crowd of curious tourists, the bronze gates and sepulcher doors were unlocked. The crystal-covered ancient lead coffin with its bony contents was placed before me. In the high, arched cathedral nave, through open doors. I had my chance to settle once...