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DIED. Victor Galindez, 31, World Boxing Association light-heavyweight champion between 1974 and 1979; of injuries received during an auto race, when a racing car spun out of control and hit him and another driver (who was also killed), as the two were leaving their disabled vehicle; in 25 de Mayo, Argentina. A ferocious fighter who successfully defended his title ten times, the Argentine-born Galindez took up auto racing earlier this year after suffering two successive defeats in the ring and going into retirement...
Former world light heavyweight champion Victor Galindez was killed yesterday in an accident after abandoning an auto race in which he had taken part as a driver, police in Buenos Aries reported...
Other incumbent champs were not as fortunate. Marvin Johnson wrested the WBA light-heavyweight crown from Victor Galindez on an 11th round TKO, and challenger Sugar Ray Leonard copped the welterweight crown with a TKO of defender Wilfred Benitez five seconds from the end of the fight...
Object Lesson. For Trujillo understood the power of terror. Thousands of opponents perished quietly in SIM secret-police dungeons, in spectacular "auto accidents" and incredible "suicides." Trujillo's avenging arm reached even to the U.S. in the famed 1956 kidnap-murder of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, a bitter Trujillo critic and onetime tutor of the dictator's children. The peak of his terror was reached one October night in 1937, when Trujillo issued instructions to eliminate Haitian squatters along the northwest border. Working nonstop for 36 hours, Trujillo's highly efficient army butchered a reported...
...sort and big headlines back home. The discovery came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus de Galindez to an appointment with death in the Dominican Republic (TIME, April...