Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aboard a U.S. Air Force Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled 13 months ago against the oppressive regime of the late Dictator Rafael Trujillo could now be lifted. What the OAS found was a nation torn by violence. Even before their plane crossed the island's coastline there was trouble...
...Dominican Republic's President Joaquin Balaguer and Ramfis Trujillo Jr., the old dictator's heir, claimed that the disorders were the work of Communist agitators, insisted that the democratization was proceeding as planned, and that there would be free elections next May. Said Balaguer: "These scratchings are the inevitable consequences of high political passions. I have faith that the democratization of Dominican institutions is being carried out firmly...
Still clad in widow's weeds, Maria Martinez de Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat and shouted "Bloody murderers," the matronly authoress (Moral Meditations, Civic Meditations) attributed the current precarious peace in the Dominican Republic to "the affection the people bore my husband," but "categorically" rejected all talk of a continuation of the dynasty by the current commander of the republic's armed forces...
...Dominican priest named Father Bruno, whose dream it is to found a Roman Catholic institute for Jewish studies in Israel and who seeks Vatican permission to say his Mass in Hebrew and to hold the Mass on the Sabbath as well as on Sunday...
Despite opposition fears that the Trujillos will never leave power without a blood bath ("It's only a matter of time before they slice us up like hot dogs," said one U.C.N. leader last week), there are many observers who feel that things could be worse in the Dominican Republic. The country has not yet degenerated into civil war or Communism. There are also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption...