Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who perennially lays claim to the title of the most anti of the hemisphere's antiCommunists, reversed himself last week. He announced that the Dominican government, meaning Trujillo, would put through its docile National Congress a constitutional amendment legalizing the Communist Party. Also scheduled to be made respectable by the same law: the Brooklyn-based Jehovah's Witnesses sect, banned since 1957, largely at the behest of Roman Catholic authorities...
Trujillo and the Reds have played pata-cake before. In the postwar flush of good will toward Moscow, the dictator praised Russia "as one of the forces for progress," and legalized Communists as "eloquent rebuttal to calumniators who accuse the Dominican Republic of not being a democratic country." That honeymoon with the Reds lasted less than a year, after which Trujillo turned about once more, again banned the Communists and even set up an investigating Committee on Un-Dominican Activities...
REGINALD'COFFEE, O.P. Dominican House of Studies Washington...
Thurs., March 17 CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kicked out of the Dominican Republic last month-but not before they had shot 85,000 ft. of film-CBS Correspondent Bill Leonard and his crew strike back with Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator...
...Venezuela, the baseball fans express themselves in fiery terms: hundreds of candles twinkle in the stands when they are happy, bonfires rage in the concrete bleachers when they are mad. In the Dominican Republic, they swarm onto the field in such purposeful rage that offending umpires have fled in the police paddy wagon. In Cuba, they salute a good play by spraying spectators across the diamond with a fusillade of Roman candles...