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Even a guided revolution is hard to control once it begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one...
Desperate Bid. For 31 years, up to last week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with...
As much as they would like to see the Dominican Republic's post-Trujillo government make way for democracy, U.S. policymakers feared that too abrupt a change could lead to a Castro-type takeover. They were reluctant to go along with demands by the anti-Trujillo opposition that the...
In such dramatic fashion, the I.A.P.A.'s Freedom of the Press Committee last week began its report to the association's annual convention. Meeting in Manhattan, 250 delegates from across the hemisphere examined complaints of violation of press freedom, nation by nation. The newsmen found faint stirrings of...
Still clad in widow's weeds, Maria Martinez de Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat...