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...businessman puts it another way. "This place is in no sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...
...Instead of Talk. Donny Reid, as Dominicans call him, got into politics as a plotter against Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and as vice president in the Council that ruled after Trujillo's assassination in 1961. Reid has no official political party ties, took no direct part in Bosch's overthrow. But. known as an able administrator, he was called upon to serve as Foreign Minister when the triumvirate first took over. "The people," says Reid, "have been deceived so many times that they no longer believe in talk. You must act instead of talk...
...decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail shortly before the accident. Harrison also neglected...
...Trujillo, Diem...
...Worthy claimed, was responsible for the assassination of Rafael Trujillo Molinas in the Dominican Republic and for the overthrow of the Diem regime in South Vietnam. He read from an article in the New Republic which backed up the former claim...