Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trinkets from Trujillo...
...Playboy Trujillo Jr.'s fancy gift-giving keeps up, the Dominican Republic will have to change its motto to "Over the Trujillo to the Poorhouse"-with the U.S. taxpayer paving, and paying...
...Dealing New York Lawyer Morris Ernst, who has defended liberal causes ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to the Sauerkraut Workers Union, this week finished a chore with a somewhat different aroma. After ten months on the payroll of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Ernst declared in a 95-page report that he had not found one scrap of evidence to link his eminent employer to the unsolved Galindez-Murphy case (TIME, April 2, 1956 et seq.). He airily dismissed as a "canard" the strong circumstantial case that leads newsmen and the FBI to a single theory: that Trujillo Critic...
Murphy Waits. On a few facts the Ernst report, co-signed by ex-New York State Supreme Court Justice William Munson, saw eye-to-eye with a long-established story. On the evening of March 12, when Author (The Era of Trujillo) Galindez waved goodbye to a student in front of a New York subway entrance and then vanished, Gerry Murphy, a onetime Eagle Scout from Eugene, Ore., was waiting at out-of-the-way Zahns Airport near Amityville, L.I., his rented twin-engined Beechcraft D18 outfitted with extra gas tanks and ready to go. Ernst checked out Murphy...
Muffling its laughter, the House decided (79-32) that there is still a case for Dominican Republic aid. Foreign aid advocates swallowed hard, knowing well that Trujillo Jr., a lieutenant general in command of the Dominican Republic's two-bit air force and a student at the U.S. Army's prestige-making Command and General Staff College, is a prime example of the kind of irresponsible foolishness that gives any real enemy of foreign aid just the kind of potent ammunition that makes headlines. Flying into Washington the same day for a nightclub appearance, Zsa Zsa Gabor quickly...