Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First of two installments, in successive weeks, of one of the most ambitious dramatic shows in TV history: Hemingway's Spanish-war epic, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Maria Schell as Maria, Jason Robards Jr. as Robert Jordan, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as Rafael...
Haiti is caught in a bind between Castro's Cuba, only 50 miles to the northwest, and Rafael Trujillo's bordering Dominican dictatorship. Duvalier would rather be accounted a member of the anti-dictatorial bloc, but that invites attack from Trujillo, whose gunboats already patrol Haitian waters and whose British-made Vampire jets fly patrols over Haitian soil. On the other hand, throwing in with Trujillo would be risky...
...time or another all three of them were in the same line of work; outsiders might easily picture ex-Dictator Juan Peron, 63, and ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, 58, gathered around Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's warm swimming pool in the Dominican Republic, reminiscing about the good old days. Instead, there was trouble in Trujillo's paradise. Peron was too scornful to speak to Batista; Batista was too scared to talk to Peron; aging (67) Dictator Trujillo obviously wished that both of them would go away. Reason: Cuba's bearded rebel leader, Fidel Castro, who toppled Batista...
...Santiago cop of the Batista regime, trying to break down a rebel woman, brought one of her brother's eyeballs on a platter to her cell. Other rebels were forced to watch their wives raped by cops. A U.S. resident of Santiago, who chanced upon Police Chief Rafael Salas Canizares shooting four young rebels dead in the street, reported: "He was in a state of maniacal ecstasy-face flushed, eyes bright, breathing hard...
...when the vanguard of 1,100 hot-eyed Caribbean revolutionaries set out in a ship from Cuba's eastern coast, bound east to invade Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic, idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning...