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The four-man OAS inspection team last week reported on its brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave...
The Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to...
As the treasury began to fill, Trujillo built schools and boasted that he had raised the literacy rate from 30% to 96% during his regime. Efficient hospitals were built; good roads (with military check points every few miles) crisscrossed the island to carry a rich sugar and coffee harvest to...
"We're on the way!" was the exultant quote, and since the source was Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry of the U.S. Public Health Service, and "the way" was supposed to lead to a cure for cancer, the story was big on radio and in the papers. It started...
Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE).