Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely quarantine, the Dominican Republic last week was welcomed back into the hemisphere's family of nations. Meeting in its marbled Washington headquarters, the Organization of American States voted 20 to 0 (Cuba abstaining) to lift the diplomatic boycott and partial trade embargo applied to late Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Caribbean fief...
...three weeks a power struggle had raged over who should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
Kekkonen was apparently carrying out Khrushchev's wishes in urging anti-Communists to quit-but many Finns felt that he was also acting with considerable relish for his own political gain. Ignoring the Kekkonen plea, the Social Democrats defiantly nominated Rafael Paasio. chairman of Parliament's foreign-relations committee, to run against Kekkonen in next month's vote for the presidency. The Conservative Party decided not to run its own presidential candidate, but pledged to remain in the fight for parliamentary general elections in February. Kekkonen's principal support was thus reduced to his own Agrarian...
Even a guided revolution is hard to control once it begins to roll. A week after the U.S. stationed warships outside the Dominican Republic's three-mile limit to help finish the dynasty of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo,* it found itself caught in a power struggle. On one side was the middle-roading, anti-Trujillo National Civic Union (U.C.N.), backed by an aroused civilian populace that went on strike to support it. On the other was Trujillo's powerful armed forces, under General Pedro Rodriguez Echaverria...
Desperate Bid. For 31 years, up to last week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate...