Word: peynado
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...loyalist troops to fight the growing concentration of well-armed rebels in the northern part of the city. With tanks and heavy artillery, one column pushed in from the western garrison of San Cristóbal, 17 miles from Santo Domingo. Another column rolled down from the north across Peynado Bridge. In all, Imbert gathered 2,000 troops to attack an estimated 1,000 rebels holed up in an area that contains, among other things, low-income dwellings, small shops, the city's only peanut oil plant and the Pepsi-Cola plant, which provided an almost limitless supply...
...hard-hitting dictator of the Dominican Republic, announced he was retiring to "private life," that he would not be a candidate for reelection. That Dictator Trujillo was not going to be any less a dictator in "private life," however, was evident when he nominated loyal Henchman Dr. Jacinto B. Peynado as his successor. Just where Boss Trujillo stands in his henchman's estimation is evident from the neon sign which glitters on the front of Peynado's home. It reads: GOD AND TRUJILLO. Says President-elect Peynado: "It will remain there as long as I live...
Last week, 345,174 male members of the Dominican Party-only legal one in the Dominican Republic-went to the polls. Women were permitted to cast a "symbolic" ballot of confidence. The men voted 92% for Peynado...
...could make what they liked out of the following facts. Last fortnight Trujillo called home Minister Rafael Brache. Defiantly Brache resigned, stayed safely in Washington. Trujillo hinted that he might take his vacation, passing on the power to his brother Virgilio and to his No. 1 toady, Vice President Peynado, but he might take it on his hacienda, Fundacion, just outside the capital. In a superb stroke of dictating, he ordered through the puppet Assembly a resolution calling on him please not to leave the Dominican Republic. Next day he topped this by having himself recommended for the Nobel Peace...
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