Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PLACES! exclaimed a headline on the Chicago Tribune editorial page last week. The editorial below explained that Jules Dubois, the Trib's veteran Latin America correspondent, had been permanently barred as an "agitator" from Strongman Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Reason: as chairman of the Inter-American Press Association's press freedom committee, Dubois had recommended that two Trujillo-owned dailies, El Caribe and La Nation, be expelled from the I.A.P.A., because there is no freedom of the press under Trujillo. "Mr. Dubois must consider it an honor to be denied Dominican hospitality," the Tribune applauded...
Three days later, back in Miami, Pilot Murphy, suddenly in the money, bought a $3,412 Dodge convertible for himself. The next month, he got a co-pilot's job on the Dominican Airlines, through the personal decision of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Murphy bragged that he could have "anything I want down there." He bought another car, kept up apartments in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
...diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story. The FBI and New York police believe that Pilot Murphy was murdered because he knew too much about the mysterious disappearance last March of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, writer of a Ph.D. thesis condemning Dictator Trujillo (TIME, April...
...talent -survival-has made him skillful in manipulating the forces that support his regime: army, church, party. He plays off the Monarchists against his Falangist party bosses, leaving both in doubt as to his successor. Last September Falange Secretary-General José Luis de Arrese and Agricultural Minister Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts in Barcelona), the Falange...
...happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that it is from Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini...