Word: santiagos
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...President Kennedy sent the Little Rock, the aircraft carriers Valley Forge and Franklin D. Roosevelt and coveys of support vessels toward the Dominican coast. Aboard the Valley Forge were 1,800 marines, with helicopters to land them on Dominican soil. At the airbase near the inland Dominican city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Commanding General Rodriguez ordered the arrest of every Trujillo agent in the city whom the uncles were apt to count on for their bloodbath. His younger brother, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff Pedro Santiago Rodriguez Echaverria, persuaded 20 pilots at San Isidro, the main airbase...
Powerful Dissent. At week's end, President Balaguer found himself in shaky control. He rewarded the two air force men by putting them in control of the armed forces-Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, Brother Pedro Santiago as air force chief of staff. Balaguer worked to form a transitional coalition government. In this he was backed by the moderately leftist Dominican Revolutionary Party of longtime anti-Trujillo Exile Juan Bosch, by Fiallo's middle-of-the-road National Civic Union, and by some elements of the leftist 14th...
...luxurious penthouse overlooking Ahumada Street, a main drag of Santiago, Chile, two agents last week received by Morse code from Peking more than 4,000 words in flawless Spanish, relayed the slanted news free to Santiago newspapers. They also mailed without charge a weekly report to hundreds of Chileans. The daily local propaganda campaign, estimated to cost $10,000 a year, is only a fraction of a massive five-year-old drive by Peking to win friends and influence governments throughout Latin America. "If the Red Chinese get fully under way," warns a U.S. expert, "we think that their efforts...
...organization dedicated to the cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
...coincided with feudalism, the most static of societies, and with the fever of the first Crusaders. It rose out of the ruins of the Roman and Carolingian empires-a fragmented world that wanted unity and found it in the church. From all over Christendom, pilgrims traveled the road to Santiago, where legend has it that the body of St. James-the saint whose spirit 37 times helped the Spaniards ward off the Moors-lies buried. There, about 1080,along "pilgrimage road," a church was begun...