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Lordly Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, longtime dictator of the Dominican Republic, has had a generally critical U.S. press ever since 1930-Year One of the Era of Trujillo, as the country's official documents call it. But he has not lacked for private defenders in the U.S. "He can be a charming fellow," one explained recently. "You can get drunk with him, sing songs, swap gamy jokes. The picture isn't all black. He's done a lot of good for the country." El Benefactor Trujillo kept order and paid his debts, the refrain went on, and above...
Last week the dictator callously pulled the rug out from under his apologists. Four new Trujillo laws went into effect, aimed squarely at the two U.S. sugar companies-the West Indies Sugar Corp. and the South Porto Rico Sugar Co.-which grow and mill 70% of the country's sugar. One of the new laws empowers Trujillo's sanitary inspectors to fine the companies and shut down their mills for health-code infractions; another requires the companies to pay production taxes on their full sugar quotas whether the mills are running or not. Two other laws levy...
Loving. He married Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold), the wildcat daughter of Dominican Dictator Trujillo, and stayed married to her for five years. The Dictator, apparently impressed by this feat, made him a diplomat. Once established on the Continent, Rubi found ways of maintaining himself in expensive luxury. He had setbacks. The Germans threw him into a detention camp during World War II. Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl...
...disturbed, as a matter of fact, when he came to the U.S. last month. He visited New York to renew his acquaintance with Barbara, but then headed west to see Zsa Zsa again. Last week he was back in New York, and as he arrived, Dominican officials in Ciudad Trujillo announced that he was going to marry Barbara...
...Dictator Trujillo, a man of the world, really take umbrage at Rubi's conduct? A likelier explanation might be that Trujillo was simply reminding Rubi that the Benefactor is still the one & only boss. Any public official under Trujillo may suffer an occasional, penitential spell of unemployment; Rubi's turn has obviously come. For a while, he will have to get along without the magic diplomatic passport, will have to let the customs officers of New York, Cherbourg and other way stations muss his socks and shirts. Then, his cafe-society pals confidently believe, he will be restored...