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...Jersey farmhouse last week, Selden Rodman, 50, showed reporters his own swelling art collection, which ranges from Haitian primitives to an abstraction painted on the spot in 1 min. 40 sec. The collection crams every room of the house, is growing so fast that Rodman recently added a gallery wing where his favorite new "insiders" hang. Chief insiders: Rico Lebrun, Leonard Baskin, James Kearns. Lebrun is typically represented by an agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns...
Half-hearted is Trujillo's adulation, and half-hearted his opposition. Last week was the anniversary of the founding, in 1838. of La Trinitaria, a secret patriotic society devoted to freeing the country from Haitian occupation. In the 2Qth year of the "Era of Trujillo," Trinitaria is back in business as the anti-Trujillo underground. Three-man cells are forming. For protection against Trujillo's secret police, only one member of each cell knows the name of one member of another cell. But the underground is small and probably futile...
...Flag. Trujillo threw his 15,000-man army into the fighting, called up reserves, sent his "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion'' of retired army men to guard the Haitian border, mobilized the "Horsemen of the East"-a private army led by Cattleman (and former consul in New York) Felix Bernardino. At sea, suspicious Dominican gunboats stopped the U.S. freighter Florida State three times on one of its regular cement-carrying round trips between Puerto Rico and Florida. In the air, a Dominican PSI fired a burst of machine-gun fire and lowered its wheels to force a U.S. Air Force...
PORT AU Prince, Haiti, April 10--Foreign Minister Louis Mars blamed Communists today for hijacking a Haitian transport plane, killing the pilot, and flying on to Haitian rebel headquarters in Cuba...
...charge of strategy and training. The expedition leaders have been picked. But since hitting the beaches in Trujillo's well-armed police state could prove suicidal, the invaders would like to slip in through underarmed Haiti and set up guerrilla operations in the rugged mountains along the Haitian-Dominican border...