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Behind Philadelphia, Chicago and Houston are battling for inclusion in the eight-team National League, with the Cubs holding a slim edge at the moment. Chicago has a number of fine young players like Billy Williams, Ron Santo, and George Altman, but the club has almost nothing in the way of a pitching staff and virtually no manager...
...Council is drawing the nation's middle-road parties into a common, anti-Communist front. Window-smashing mobs can still raise a ruckus in Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), but now, says one political leader, "each time we have trouble, we have less trouble." The biggest pro-Castro party has lost two-thirds of its original 150,000 members. An anti-Communist national labor federation has won away most of the country's organized workers; anti-Communist student groups have won out in the Dominican Students' Federation...
...designed an agrarian reform law under which the Council is already distributing land, planned the country's first housing authority, which hopes to help finance 20,000 low-cost homes in the next twelve months. As new capital and new machines-tractors, trucks, sugar-cane grinders-pour into Santo Domingo, unemployment is down 50% to 200,000, wages are up 20%-40%, and workers are eating better...
...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...