Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-Trujillo government make way for democracy, U.S. policymakers feared that too abrupt a change could lead to a Castro-type takeover. They were reluctant to go along with demands by the anti-Trujillo opposition that the late dictator's heirs, led by his own son, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., be forced to give up the reins of government and clear out of the country. Last October U.S. planners thought that they had worked out a way to have democracy and Trujillos as well. Last week the plan suddenly went sour, and in the midst of the uproar...
...Committee last week began its report to the association's annual convention. Meeting in Manhattan, 250 delegates from across the hemisphere examined complaints of violation of press freedom, nation by nation. The newsmen found faint stirrings of editorial liberty in the Dominican Republic following the assassination of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. They noted the arrest and brief jailing of TIME'S Chile Correspondent Mario Planet for two stories (TIME. June 23. Aug. 25) deemed disturbing to Chile's tranquillity. Cuba, Paraguay and Haiti were listed as "countries where there is no freedom of the press...
...General Assembly hears many violent denunciations and endless bland defenses. Rarely does it hear an abject admission of guilt and plea for forgiveness. Last week Joaquin Balaguer, 54, the fragile, weak-willed intellectual whom Dictator Rafael Trujillo left behind as President of the Dominican Republic, traveled to Manhattan to plead guilty to his leader's crimes. "The barrier of silence has been lifted, said Balaguer. "After the death of the man who personified the Dominican state for 30 years, a new government has gradually been modeling its institutions according to the principles of representative democracy...
...Cruising through Caracas in June 1960, Betancourt barely escaped his old enemy Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic; Trujillo's agents parked a car loaded with high explosives along the route, triggered it by a microwave transmitter. The blast killed Betancourt's aide-de-camp, his chauffeur and a bystander and severely burned Betancourt himself-to the extent that his hands, 16 months later, are still horribly scarred and tender...
...Dominicans. Don't shoot," cried Economics Professor Rafael Estrella Liz. The police agent fired a burst in the professor's face, then sprayed the crowd. Another man, a mechanic, was killed, dozens wounded. The crowd dragged the body of Professor Estrella to the roadside, and for 1½, hours fought off police and firemen armed with clubs and high-pressure water hoses. The police managed to beat the crowd back, hauled the corpse away just 40 minutes before the OAS team passed...