Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first to hang out their banners were the Reform Party's Joaquín Balaguer, 59, a onetime Trujillo functionary and moderate who served as interim President from 1960 to 1962, and the National Integration Movement's Rafael Bonnelly, 60, a conservative who succeeded Balaguer as interim President in 1962. Last week, to hardly anyone's surprise-and after weeks of denying that he wanted it-the nomination of the Dominican Revolutionary Party went by acclamation to Juan Bosch, the onetime President who was tossed out by the military in 1963. Bosch insisted that he had been...
...went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will have no trouble identifying lightly veiled counterparts of the Rothschilds, Trujillo, Swindler Serge Rubinstein, and Porfirio Rubirosa...
...preface. "The Jet Set is passé. Today you have the Restless Set, those people who are bored with the banal." So saying, Editor-Publisher Igor Cassini, 50, bored and restless ever since 1964 when he was fined $10,000 as an unregistered agent for Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, launched his new magazine Status. It had pieces by Lucius Beebe and Cleveland Amory, who go all the way back to Café Society, and some instructions on giving yourself the "Go-Go-ciety look" ("float about carefree in tiny doll dresses") or the "soignée Society presence" ("three sets...
Ample Evidence. In the Dominican Republic itself, the U.S. was instrumental in bringing an end to the Trujillo dictatorship. In the recent crisis, U.S. policy may well have suffered from some mistakes and misinformation. But the fact remains that the country was on the verge of a bloodbath, and that the Communists were swiftly profiting from the chaos. U.S. troops, whether 5,000 or 20,000, enforced a more or less peaceful settlement-and the U.S., in the end, was far tougher with the loyalist "reactionaries" than with the Communist-infiltrated rebels...
...supplying vast amounts of food to Caamano's rebel zone-and could cut off those supplies if the rebels persist in refusing to yield their stronghold. Yet how long any settlement or provisional government will last is a moot point. After 31 years of savage Trujillo dictatorship and subsequent vacuum, the hatreds of the Dominican Republic run deep, and there are thousands of people on both sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels...