Word: santo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as more and more of the Trujillos' grisly secrets are put before the public. Attorney General Garcia Vasquez reports that two of the busiest murder factories were located in the capital's environs-"La Carenta" (The Forty), so-called because it was on 40th Street in Santo Domingo, and "Kilometer Nine," beside a highway nine kilometers east of the capital. Both were run by the S.I.M., and both were equipped with relatively unsophisticated but highly effective torture instruments. One device was an electric chair used both for shocking and for slow electrocution...
...garrison. The mob followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city of Santiago, another crowd shouting "The assassins must be punished!" was dispersed by bullets, with two wounded. In Santo Domingo, the capital, night raiders revenged themselves by shooting from speeding cars at policemen, killing one and wounding...
...Joint Center will also award two Venezuelan Doctoral Research Fellowships for the academic year 1962-63. Holders of these grants, open to all graduate students at Harvard and M.I.T., will write a dissertation relating to the development of the Orinoco-Caroni region of Southern Venezuela and its new city, Santo Tome de Guayana. For this purpose they will receive a stipend of $5,500 plus travel and cost of living allowances while residing in Venezuela...
...threw up barricades. At the palace Rodriguez Echavarria arrived to face the Council with 100 troops and an ultimatum: "The Council is not working very well. I have no confidence in it." His men leveled their guns at the Council members, hustled them off to a house at Santo Domingo's San Isidro airbase...
...Along the sea wall in Santo Domingo crowds hopefully awaited the return of U.S. Navy warships, which once before guaranteed the republic's budding democracy. But in Washington, with the Punta del Este meeting on Cuba about to begin, President Kennedy decided on less conspicuous muscle flexing. U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Calvin Hill Jr., who was in Washington to advise on resuming help to the Dominicans, was sent back to his post with orders to put pressure on Rodriguez Echavarria...