Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...descend on Manhattan when the United Nations General Assembly convenes, the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky usually attracts the most attention. But on opening day last week, Vishinsky had to yield the spotlight to a strong-jawed newcomer from the Caribbean: fabulous Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, 61, who since 1930 has run the lush, green little Dominican Republic like a private plantation, piling up wealth by the tens of millions and crushing all opposition with iron ruthlessness. Trujillo had left his brother Héctor in charge at home and taken over as his country...
...hour before the session began, Trujillo made his entrance, flanked by ten New York City cops, ten U.N. policemen and a seven-man flying squad of his own "aides." Vishinsky arrived later, practically unnoticed, with a mere handful of henchmen. Strictly business, the generalissimo swept into the headquarters building with outriders brushing reporters and newsreel photographers out of his path. Turning into a small lounge, Trujillo shook hands with Maurice Pate, executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, new U.S. delegate to the U.N. In a swift ceremony witnessed mainly by his aides...
...sidewalks outside U.N. headquarters, too, Trujillo got the kind of attention usually reserved for Vishinsky. Some 40 glowering pickets, Dominican exiles who have been dogging the dictator's tracks ever since he landed in Washington 12 weeks ago, paraded back & forth with signs denouncing him as an "assassin" and "murderer." They also lugged a big black coffin, which is supposed to symbolize the fate of Trujillo's opponents. The generalissimo, making his departure after the fifteen-minute opening session, probably did not even see the pickets. Twenty cops and bodyguards surrounded him as he climbed into his limousine...
Friendship Available. With the exception of the Argentines, whose ambassador promptly denied that his government was "extremist" or meddled in the affairs of other countries, and the Dominicans, who anxiously asked their U.S. legal counsel whether Dulles could have been talking about the Trujillo dictatorship, Latino governments welcomed the new approach. Diplomats in Washington naturally wondered in what specific ways Dulles would "take adequate steps to maintain the friendly relations available to us in most of these countries." But none could doubt that the new Administration would do all in its power to repair neighborly relations...
Nicaragua. The personal property of Dictator "Tacho" Somoza, a far more amiable character than his pal Trujillo...