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Signals of the turn inside Trujillo's supertight Caribbean island nation are clear. After years of posing as Latin America's strongest anti-Communist bulwark, the dictator has started cozying up to Castro and the Soviet bloc. Six months ago Trujillo's Radio Caribe propaganda outlet adopted a Marxist, anti-U.S. cant in its commentary. Last August the dictator sent emissaries to Europe and began the first of a series of secret meetings with Iron Curtain leaders; rumors are buzzing in Ciudad Trujillo that diplomatic relations will soon be established with Poland and Russia...
...Negroes. Dowdy's complaint was handed to Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, whose enforcement powers are limited to public contract but whose public hearings can be powerful in dealing with private business. Field's, faced with an implied threat of public hearings and a supertight labor market, relented and wrote the commission that it had decided to give "a number of jobs, some menial, some not so menial," to qualified Negroes...