Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moore entered the Army, rose from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, returned to civilian life in 1951 "to make money." Occupation since then: a roving man-about-business. with varied interests in Carribbean green sugar, U.S. freight airlines, a shipyard in Dictator Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, etc. Last week George Gordon Moore appeared voluntarily before the House subcommittee, made some of his financial records available, insisted convincingly that he had never used the Eisenhowers to help his business fortunes-"No. sir!" After getting a clean bill and friendly smiles from the subcommittee, Moore departed...
...cozy colony for retired dictators in Ciudad Trujillo is breaking up. Argentina's Juan Perón, who cannot get a U.S. visa, last week reserved space for himself and his young blonde secretary, Isabel Martinez, on a flight from Puerto Rico to Madrid. He canceled out when he could get no assurance of exemption from U.S. immigration and customs during the short stopover in San Juan, but presumably will try again by some other route...
...footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ring and a guard springs alert in a room lined with pistols, riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Once divided into six apartments, the entire floor has been remodeled into a top-security weekend retreat. Its tenant: Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, the nonflying (by father's orders) chief of the Dominican air force...
...rented a $450-a-month ranch house in the city of Leavenworth. The garage doors open automatically, and Ramfis disappears after classes behind shades that are always drawn. Outside, a six-man crew of private detectives watches the house and patrols nearby streets. Back home in Ciudad Trujillo, Dictator Rafael Trujillo Sr., last of Latin America's undisputed strongmen, could be reasonably certain that his heir was both safe and comfortable...
...comeback coup when it became obvious that he could not win the 1952 election, is insecure in the saddle after trying for 14 months without success to smash an ever-strengthening guerrilla revolt in Cuba's eastern mountains. Only the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 66, now playing host to exiled Pérez Jiménez and his crew, still keeps the lid clamped shut on his rich, thoroughly cowed little island nation...