Word: hispaniola
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spate of political murders sent oppositionists into hiding and kept nerves taut. Behind the crisis lay President Francois Duvalier's fear that he would become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles!" (Cut off heads! Burn houses...
Puleston, who was 47 last week, has always sketched birds in his spare time -whether commuting from Leigh-on-Sea to a bank in London or hunting buried treasure off Hispaniola, or being initiated into a Samoan clan, or traveling "hard" class across Russia, or training troops to land on Omaha Beach...
...Hugh was the first Jamaican chief executive to touch what is now Haitian soil since Acting Governor Sir Henry Morgan, the respectably retired pirate, was shipwrecked on French Hispaniola 279 years ago. In Sir Hugh's honor, the Foreign Minister put on an elegant ball, and the tall, slim governor gamely accommodated his swooping waltz style to the intricacies of the Haitian meringue...
...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
Perhaps the strangest sight Columbus saw was off the coast of Hispaniola on his way back to Spain. Looming out of the Caribbean Sea were three manatees-sea cows. These warm-blooded mammals looked half human as they raised their heads and chests and clasped their young in their arms to suckle them. Columbus found them disappointing mermaids. He confided in his log: "They are . . . not so beautiful as they are painted...