Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against themselves, had actually been hatching a plot of their own against neighboring Haiti. The scheme, uncovered late last month, called for the murder of Haitian President Dumarsais Estimé and other high Haitian officials and-to provide a reason for indignation-the burning of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. In the ensuing panic, Dominican troops under the renegade Haitian colonel, Astrel Roland (TIME, Feb. 21), were to invade the country...
What lent substance to the story was that it had been the Dominican charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince himself who disclosed the plot to the Haitians. His motive: the discovery that he and his family were to have been beaten up to provide a good excuse for Dominican intervention. Having spilled the beans, he fled to the U.S., where, after a few consultations with his countrymen, he was promoted-and denied the whole story...
...male named Tambour, born of the same parents as Negrita, was found in Port-au-Prince and rushed to the First Lady. Soon he was well settled into his late sister's old routine. He was a disappointment in only one way; whereas Negrita was born black and later turned silver, Tambour remained all black...
...which was often more important than numbers and weapons. Crisper, more critical, less reverent of big names than Freeman, Williams shows Lee and Jackson as the great leaders they were, but quite capable of errors in command (e.g., Lee's slips at Gettysburg, Jackson's boner at Port Republic) which most of their admirers have glossed over. With Grant only an offstage noise in these first volumes, Williams' real heroes are the shrewd and patient Lincoln, efficient Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and the fighting soldiers of the Union army. Williams winds up his critique...