Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign affairs, Castro seemed principally concerned with Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave refuge to Batista. "Let Trujillo start trouble," he boasted. "We'd like that." Castro, who holds only the title of "delegate of the President to the armed forces," promised a thorough housecleaning of the military...
...that point, Cuban Prime Minister Gonzalo Guell dropped in secretly on Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, got ready promises of a refuge for Batista and his cohorts. In fierce street fighting that killed 60, Guevara whipped a dispirited army garrison of 3,000 men and took Santa Clara (pop. 150,000), the rebels' first big city. A trainload of 150 troops sent by Batista refused even to get out of the railroad cars. Batista was through...
...left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
...Communist strength could be plainly exhibited. By granting his consent. Larrazaáal stands to gain an estimated 150,000 Red votes, which could be decisive if the three-way election is a close contest. Others in the race: Rómulo Betancourt. of the leftist Democratic Action Party: Rafael Caldera, of the Catholic COPEI Party...
...Pope is definitely a pastoral type," as opposed to the more politically interested Pius XII, stated Christopher C. Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies. "A new Pope is not like a new political party brought into power, however," observed Fr. Rafael Porras, Advisor to Catholic Students in the University...