Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Fidel attended Havana University Law School beginning in 1945. One of his classmates said recently that others were in awe of his ability at oratory, his intensity and his idealistic dedication. He broke off his studies temporarily in 1947 to take part in an abortive attempt to overthrow Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, escaping capture by swimming across a shark-filled bay with a machine gun and ammunition on his back...
...staff, a young divorcee, had taken a special interest in my article and promised that she would get me in to see Fidel. She gave me the number of his suite, the private telephone number, and the name and number of his chief bodyguard--information, she assured me, which Trujillo agents would pay dearly to get I stayed in touch with her for three nights while she waited for Castro's return...
...juggler, began to totter early this year, he desperately sought more cash to save it. Guterma, then boss of the F. L. Jacobs Co.. which controlled the Mutual Broadcasting System and at least twelve other corporations, found a likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury also indicted as defendants Hal Roach...
...indictment said that Guterma and the other defendants offered to act as Trujillo "publicity agents." see that the Mutual Broadcasting System's 450 affiliated stations carried 425 minutes of favorable news a month about Trujillo for 18 months. A week after the deal was made, Guterma was out of his empire and Mutual as the SEC closed in with fraud charges (TIME. Feb. 23). Mutual broadcasts in February are alleged to have contained Dominican propaganda. But with Guterma gone, the puffs stopped...
Mutual officials, who were not told about the deal, said they first got wind of it when Newscaster Robert F. Hurleigh (now Mutual president) went on a press junket to Ciudad Trujillo last May, was confronted with the deal by a Trujillo aide. Shocked and angry, Mutual went to the Justice Department. Trujillo's lawyer also went to the Justice Department after he failed to get the money back from Guterma, turned over the alleged contract with Trujillo...