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...closed, they went the military route. From San Juan harbor they were ferried by a U.S. Navy LST to the assault carrier Boxer, already en route to Dominican waters with the first contingent of marines. A Marine helicopter then flew them from the deck of the Boxer to the Embajador Hotel grounds in the center of the war-riven capital. From the hotel they gingerly worked their way to the nearby U.S. embassy and made it safely inside as snipers fired at the building and at the marines stationed outside. To cover the whole story, they moved out onto...
Meanwhile the U.S. embassy was gathering Americans and other foreigners at the Embajador Hotel for evacuation. More than 500 people were waiting at the hotel and on the grounds when a group of rebel teenagers, most of them kids from 16 to 18, suddenly appeared waving burp guns. They lined the men up against a wall as if to execute them, then fired their automatic weapons harmlessly into the air. "Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal...
...restaurants, casinos and nightclubs are empty, except for pistol-packing bigwigs, and only a few of them. The Hotel Jaragua is almost deserted, and the 310-room Embajador, which cost $6,000,000 or so, had about 20 guests. I'm convinced that the slot machines and games are fixed in favor of the tourists, in hopes that someone will spread the good word back home. At least, I could not lose for winning on the slots, and I watched a blackjack dealer accomplish a nearly impossible feat: he went over 21 on three of five hands, thus keeping...
With the road back blocked. Pérez Jiménez idled away the hours in plush exile in the Dominican Republic's lavish Hotel Embajador. won $3,000 at roulette one evening in the hotel casino. With Fellow Exile Juan Perón of Argentina he went sightseeing, and the two presumably discussed their next moves. Perón had expressed a hankering for a slow boat ride to Europe, where he reportedly has millions stowed away in Swiss banks. Pérez Jiménez and Chief Cop Estrada may seek private asylum...
...over the capital last week people danced to the mountain music. Staid Nacional Radio slipped a few bambucos in among its classics; smaller stations broadcast them at all hours. White-tied guitarists strummed the beat at the upper-class Embajador restaurant. Street minstrels twanged the bambuco on their four-stringed tiples (Indian guitars). El Espectador, surveying the popular tunes of 1949, noted that three bambucos topped the list. "Why not?" asked a bogotano. ''After all, it's our own music, and it's good...