Word: trujillos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
...dying Congress was not only rough on the Democrats, it also deliberately defied President Eisenhower. After the 21 nation Organization of American States condemned Dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic for aggression and called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican sugar to the U.S. The Senate obligingly voted unrestricted authority to the President, but the House capriciously insisted that he would have to wait until the OAS members formally invoked sanctions. In a schizoid mood, neither House nor Senate would budge, and the new sugar bill died with the Congress...
Atlantic. Presumably, too, Khrushchev's new-found friends in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba's Castro and Dominican Dictator Trujillo, would also make in-person appearances at the U.N. And Nikita blandly allowed that he thought "it would be good" if President Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan also put in an appearance...
Russians Move In. Two days later the Administration formally broke off diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic. In inviting Trujillo's retaliation, the U.S. may be jeopardizing its missile-tracking station on the island and private investments worth $150 million. Moreover, if the sanctions topple Trujillo, he may be succeeded by another Castro...
Tentatively, the Russians edged into the situation. Trujillo's Radio Caribe contracted for the services of the Soviet news agency Tass. Two Soviet trade experts arrived in Ciudad Trujillo to see what political mischief they could make...