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From FBI files last week came new evidence powerfully supporting the hypothesis that Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo engineered the international kidnaping of Basque Scholar Jesús de Galíndez from the heart of Manhattan on March 12, 1956. Released were papers of Pilot Gerald Murphy, the onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore. who flew the kidnap plane and later vanished in the Dominican Republic. Items...
...Notes in Murphy's writing mentioning Galíndez, Arturo Espaillat, former Dominican consul general in New York, and U.S. Private Detectives John Frank and Horace Schmahl...
...political heir of the assassinated Carlos Castillo Armas, Cruz Salazar controlled Congress, which has the legal power to break an election stalemate by choosing between the two front runners. Unofficial election totals put Ydigoras well ahead with 41% of the vote, left Cruz Salazar and Mario Méndez Montenegro of the liberal Revolutionary Party in a tight race for second place...
...defeat hit not only M.D.N. but the U.S., which has backed Castillo Armas' brand of moderation with some $80 million in aid. Though publicly neutral, the U.S. had obviously hoped that the middle-road ways would stick. Both Ydigoras Fuentes and Méndez Montenegro professed to be friendly to the U.S., but their backers yelped about U.S. "interference" in internal affairs...
...brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped dump Fernández were pressing the dictator to slack off the oppression. Clearly, Pérez Jiménez' troubles were far from over...