Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trujillo is in retreat. Last week the 68-year-old Dominican dictator emptied his desk and closed his office in the National Palace, where-whether officially President or not-he has ruled the country for 30 years. He fired his brother Hector, who for the past eight years has been stand-in President. He sent his son Ramfis, the onetime tabloid-headline playmate of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor, off to Geneva to "advise" the Dominican delegation to a trade conference. He bounced two lesser Trujillos from high government jobs. And he named himself chief Dominican delegate...
...feeling that he is an embarrassing anachronism, disapproval from the Roman Catholic Church and opposition from the formerly tame middle and upper classes. If necessary, he can retreat further to the safety of the U.N. corridors in Manhattan. If at that point prudence indicates that the chief Dominican Republic delegate better not go back home, he will have got out alive, safe and rich...
...procedure or methods she is employing." Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt said that Latin American democracies must take charge of telling the Soviet Union to "keep hands off America"' -though to him the first order of hemisphere business was to cope with the Caribbean threat posed by the Dominican Republic Dictator, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose agents last month tried to assassinate Betancourt...
...punishing Fidel Castro by canceling the rest of Cuba's 1960 U.S. sugar quota, the U.S. at first seemed in the embarrassing position of giving a windfall to Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Under the law, Cuba's canceled quota was to be split among other traditional foreign suppliers to the U.S. Trujillo's normal 111,157-ton share of the U.S. market promised to grow by more than 200%, giving an extra $29 million to the Dominican sugar industry, which Trujillo virtually owns. Last week the U.S. found a way to cancel Trujillo...
...extra 200,000 tons as their share of the divvy. Quota nations other than Cuba will also get increases. They may range from 7,000 tons for such small quota countries as Costa Rica and Haiti to nearly 80,000 tons for the Philippines. Mexico. Peru and the Dominican Republic will get windfalls. The Mexicans now hope to provide up to 200,000 tons v. their present 65,000. The Dominican Republic, where Dictator Trujillo controls the sugar industry, expects a windfall of about 200,000 tons, and Panama will increase its quota from 3,600 to 10,000 tons...