Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic note rocketed last week from the State Department to Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic: What had the Dominican authorities discovered in their prolonged investigation of the death of Airline Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy, 23, a U.S. citizen? Buried in the question was a startling story. The FBI and New York police believe that Pilot Murphy was murdered because he knew too much about the mysterious disappearance last March of Columbia University Lecturer Jesus de Galindez, writer of a Ph.D. thesis condemning Dictator Trujillo (TIME, April...
...Cancer Patient." Pilot Murphy was hired by the Dominican Airline six weeks before Galindez vanished, was made a copilot in spite of defective eyesight, which had barred him from U.S. military or commercial flying. Cocky and buoyant, he settled in Ciudad Trujillo, flew in and around the Dominican Republic for ten months. And one of the flights, he boasted in indiscreet moments last summer and fall, had been a hush-hush special job. His plane, he said, had taken Scholar Galindez, disguised as a "cancer patient," from the U.S. to the Dominican Republic...
...November Murphy got a better job in the U.S., and announced to the airline that he planned to resign. On the afternoon of Dec. 3 he met his fiancée, an airline hostess, when her plane stopped over briefly in Ciudad Trujillo. He told her that he was headed, by official request, for the presidential palace. After that, Pilot Murphy vanished...
...Lame One." Dictator Trujillo & Co. plainly intended to let the suicide report end the affair. But the U.S., as its note last week showed, found the story hard to believe. From inside the Dominican Republic came a report that Pilot De la Maza as well as Pilot Murphy had talked. By De la Maza's story, he and Murphy together had indeed spirited a cancer patient from Miami to Ciudad Trujillo. But the mysterious passenger was not Galindez. It was, instead, one Francisco ("The Lame One") Martinez Jara, urgently wanted then and now by U.S. authorities on suspicion...
Married. Porfirio Rubirosa, aging (47) Dominican playboy; and bosomy, 20-year-old French Actress Odile Rodin; he for the fifth time (wives one to four: Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator, French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Moneybags Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton), she for the first; in Sonchamp, France...