Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate was Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.-if he could ever live down his reputation as 1) a Stork Club playboy, 2) a lackluster candidate who lost by 173,000 votes when he ran for state attorney general in 1954, and 3) a lawyer who once accepted a fee from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
They do so not out of follow-the-leader support of the U.S. but out of increasing distaste for Castro's meddling. Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Paraguay have already broken relations with Cuba. Last week, three days before the U.S. diplomatic break, Peru became No. 6 after a raid by five anti-Castro exiles on Cuba's Lima embassy turned up documents proving that the Cuban ambassador was donating $20,000 a month to enemies of the government. The same kind of subversion in Panama brought the recall of the Panamanian ambassador to Cuba last...
...This is the most pleasant place on earth," said Christopher Columbus shortly after he set up his New World headquarters on Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb...
Tragic coincidences are not uncommon in Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Last week Trujillo's mouthpiece, El Cáribe, reported another: the curious case of three wellborn sisters noted for their opposition to the Dictator. They were found dead near the wreckage of a Jeep at the bottom of a 150-ft. cliff on the north coast of the tight little island. Said El Cáribe: "The accident in which Driver Rufino Cruz and the sisters Patria Mirabal de Gonzáles, Minerva Mirabal de Tavárez and Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman...
There was much to the story of the three Mirabal sisters that El Cáribe did not tell. The story began with Minerva, 32, who reportedly caught the Dictator's eye some years ago when she was a pretty university student. When Trujillo tried to exercise his Dominican version of droit du seigneur, Minerva's response was a stinging slap on the face. Shortly thereafter, both Minerva and her middle-aged father were jailed, Minerva briefly, her father for two years before he was released -to die 15 days later of a combination of malnutrition, beatings...