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Lawyer Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr., though never chummy with the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, came right out and registered as a foreign agent for the Caribbean nation. For representing Trujillo's legal interests and performing "such other services as required" in the U.S., Roosevelt's new law firm in Washington will get a handsome retainer of $60,000 for two years. F.D.R. Jr.'s partner is Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, now a lobbyist for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, but better known for socking the nose of Columnist Drew Pearson in 1952 (Clark...
Under Owner-Editor German Ornes, the Dominican Republic daily El Caribe praised Dictator Rafael Trujillo slavishly, as do all Dominican newspapers. Last week, at a press conference in Manhattan, German Ornes, 36, bitterly labeled Trujillo a "despot" and his regime a "tyranny," accused him of "usurpation, plunder and criminal violence...
...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
Fortunately for Ornes, he was scheduled to leave for the U.S. on business the fol lowing day. Trujillo himself was in the U.S. at the time, and with the boss away, nobody else kept Ornes and his wife from departing. They never went back...
Ornes now plans to look for a job in the U.S. While he looks, he should have ample time to meditate on what that one ill-tombed caption cost him: his substantial savings, the paper (which he held under a Trujillo-granted loan of $640,000), an income of around $50,000 a year, and a $60,000 villa. Bootlicking El Benefactor, it would appear, is a remunerative business-while it lasts...