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...telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio Jesús Cabrera had picked up a "hitchhiker" and was later found knifed to death...
...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...economic stagnation continues in Chile," Minister of Mines Enrique Serrano put the blame on U.S. copper companies, announced that Congress would get a bill requiring the companies to 1) increase production by 15% yearly. 2) refine all their copper in Chile, 3) build housing for their workers. According to Santiago Radio Commentator Francisco Olivares. the Alliance for Progress could be very simply defined: "The Latin Americans have a problem, and the U.S. has a problem. The problem of the U.S. has two chapters-Cuba and the desire to gain friends. The Latin Americans' problem has only one chapter: dollars...
Balaguer. who had faithfully served the old dictator as President, is nonetheless widely regarded as a sincere and decent man. He appears to have more to be proud of than to hide. There were still scattered reports of strong-arm repressions: 20 arrests in the city of Santiago. the "accidental" death of a youth jailed for ripping Trujillo's picture off a nightclub wall. The government outlawed the far-left Movimiento Popular Dominicano...
...luck. "I was going good," says Manuel, the gored bullfighter in The Undefeated, "I didn't have any luck. That was all." "Never fight under me," says Colonel Cantwell in Across the River and Into the Trees. "I'm cagey. But I'm not lucky." Even Santiago, the old fisherman in The Old Man and the Sea, says, "I have no luck any more." Under the brilliant physical surface in Hemingway there was always the metaphysical brooding, the glancing reflections on a destiny his characters keep telling themselves not to think about...