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...hours last week, the Dominican Republic's fragile new democracy disappeared beneath a military dictatorship that promised to be a throwback to the days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In a bold coup, Armed Forces Secretary Pedro Ramon Rodriguez Echavarria, a 37-year-old Trujillo leftover, dismissed the civilian Council of State and proclaimed his own tame junta. In Miami, two exiled Trujillos, brothers of the assassinated dictator, started cashing their cached U.S. dollars into pesos for the trip home. But having once tasted freedom after 31 years of tyranny, the 3,000,000 Dominicans were...
...wall-to-wall resort hotels and restaurants along Miami Beach, most of the busboys are now Cubans. A former army officer runs a boardinghouse. shares a single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes...
...those short-order trials that pass for justice in Castro's Cuba, five members of the defeated invasion force that landed last April were sentenced to death and quickly executed; nine others got 30-year sentences. Technically, the 14 were tried for crimes they committed before the invasion. Ramon Calvino, a police corporal during the regime of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, was accused of killing and torturing prisoners: George King Yun, was accused of killing a port guard last year while he was stealing a boat. Nine hours after the trials began, verdicts were in, sentences pronounced, and appeals denied...
...cops last week began questioning a teen-age tough-and found themselves threatened by riot. A hostile crowd of some 200 persons milled around, a shower of bricks and other debris hurtled down from tenement rooftops. One brick, aimed at the policemen, struck and killed a bystander, Factory Worker Ramon Rojas...
Passion for Second. Puyat's passion for second place on the Nacionalista ticket is predicated on the Philippine Constitution, under which presidential tenure is limited to eight years. President Garcia, who took office in 1957 on the death of popular President Ramon Magsaysay in a plane accident, must step down in March 1965 and give the remaining nine months of his presidency to his Vice President-provided, of course, that the Nacionalistas win the November election...