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Before 2,000 delegates of his obedient Dominican Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew...
Born: Feb. 17, 1906, in Brooklyn, when his father, General Leonidas Plaza, twice President of Ecuador (1901-05, 1912-16), was minister to the U.S.
I read your Feb. 12 report about those 200 Greeks who stood off a 45-minute attack [in Korea] by 3,000 Communists ... It is the fate and the history of these people to stand off attacks and keep on fighting, although outnumbered. That fate started some 2,000 years...
With these words from a lead editorial in the prison News, the convicts at California's San Quentin prison this week said goodbye to "The Croaker." Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, just turned 65, had retired after 38 years as San Quentin's prison doctor.
War 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...