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...from Caracas' Maiquetia airport carrying four passengers, including a self-styled Venezuelan general named Juan Manuel Sanoja. As the plane neared Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Sanoja instructed the pilot to radio the message: "Advise the Generalissimo that General Sanoja is aboard plane. Also advise Colonel Abbes Garcia...
...land at San Isidro Military Base," came the answer. The plane passengers were met by Dominican officials in Mercedes Benz limousines and driven to a house in Ciudad Trujillo. There they were shortly joined by Colonel John Abbes Garcia, 36, Trujillo's chief intelligence agent and hatchetman...
...than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military parade. A U.S. Army Signal Corps team had installed a White House telephone near by; it had been left on an upturned yellow oilcan. As Ike watched the parade, the phone suddenly jangled. A U.S. Secret Service agent...
...settled into his leather chair, Goodpaster leaned forward and began whispering into the President's left ear. Ike's head snapped around. The two talked for about a minute, as President Garcia, sitting at Ike's side, politely assumed an air of interest in the parade. When Ike turned again, his face told the story: his mouth turned down; his eyes, framed with crowfoot lines, squinted. Then he shook his head and pursed his lips. Turning back to Goodpaster and to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who was close by, Ike said: "We better get something...
...Single Cause. Ike shrugged off his brief reverie to accept the Order of Sikatuna, rank of Raja, from Garcia (the Philippines' highest decoration for foreign heads of state). When the speeches were done, he met with his staff at Malacanan Palace, dictated a statement that expressed his "full and sympathetic understanding of the decision taken by the Japanese government," and his "regrets that a small, organized minority, led by professional Communist agitators . . . have been able by resort to force and violence" to prevent the good-will visit. Said Ike that night: "I would have liked to go-I still...