Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week reported on its brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave the way for readmission of the Dominican Republic into polite inter-American society. The U.S. pressed for a stronger report, condemning the Trujillos for their many past crimes, skeptical of their promises to reform...
...sound of chanting mobs, the Dominican Republic last week broke violently out of the shell of political repression that has encased it for 31 years. Shouting "Out with the Trujillos,"'.more than 8,000 students, workers and women stormed the government-owned Radio Caribe, sloshed gasoline on the floors and set it ablaze. When police arrested 25 ringleaders, the mob hurled stones. The police fired, and six demonstrators were wounded. A few hours later, street fighting broke out again when a band of Trujillo supporters carrying a huge picture of the slain dictator tried to burn the headquarters...
...sent him a terse cable informing him that she had a baby boy in Rome" (Louella Parsons), that "when enameled bathtubs and lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness" (Bert Bacharach), and, in a quick switch to weightier matters, that the Dominican Republic under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned its attention (for 21 column inches) to a man in Greenwich Village who had just acquired a 1936 Dodge, reported that "that was indeed...
...four-nation team from Panama, Colombia, Uruguay and the U.S. arrived last week, the Dominican radio asked all citizens to "report arbitrary acts of excesses of officials or employees of the government." Juan Abbes Garcia, the dreaded boss of the secret police, SIM, was publicly dismissed and quietly sent off as embassy first secretary in Japan. Ramfis made peace with the Roman Catholic bishops his father harassed. He promised free elections for 1962, proclaimed amnesty for all political prisoners, asked exiles to come home...
Joaquin Balaguer, the puppet President whom Ramfis inherited from his father, went so far as to welcome the presence of a U.S. fleet cruising 60 miles off the Dominican coast. "It is just," he said. The U.S. "should be concerned that this vital area not become the theater of hatreds." Added Ramfis, who would very much like to resume diplomatic relations with the U.S., sell more sugar, and see more tourists: "I wish to emphasize that reports that I am anti-American are lies spread by reactionaries...