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...Santo Domingo (known for 25 years as Ciudad Trujillo), a crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family...
Desperate Bid. For 31 years, up to last week, Héctor was literally right. In the name of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Trujillo clan ruled the island as their own and enriched themselves. After the old dictator was assassinated last May as he rode to a rendezvous with his mistress, the fiefdom fell into the uncertain hands of his son and heir, Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, who with U.S. approval was doing his best to arrange a peaceful transition. Last week, returning from exile, Uncle Hector and his brother José Arismendi, made a last desperate...
...backing Ramfis, in the hope that he could bloodlessly "democratize" Trujillo-land, the U.S. made it a condition that Uncles Héctor and Arismendi stay away. They did for a while, then began to complain that young Ramfis was frittering away their fief, and blustered home to stop him. At that point, Ramfis gave up. After all, he had a reported $500 million stashed away in solid currencies in overseas banks. So he resigned as armed forces chief of staff and embarked with a consoling German blonde on the family yacht Angelita, bound first for the nearby island...
Ramfis went along with the arrangement, and by his standards, evidently thought that he had lived up to his part. His Uncle Arismendi sailed off across the Caribbean in the frigate Presidente Trujillo. His Uncle Hector cruised the same sea in the family yacht Angelita. He surrendered eight sugar mills. Not only was the Castroite Popular Dominican Movement proscribed, but the police even began to look for its leader, Máximo López Molina. Last week, as time drew near for the U.S. quid pro quo at an OAS meeting in Washington, López Molina was "found...
...Dominican Republic, Woodward's words brought sharp protest from anti-Trujillo Dominicans. Viriato Fiallo, head of the National Civic Union, the country's largest anti-Trujillo organization, flew to Washington to protest. But the bitterest reactions were among the Trujillos themselves. Ramfis had expected the U.S. to go all the way on the removal of sanctions, and counted particularly on removal of U.S. sanctions against imports of Dominican sugar, which cost Trujillo $56 million last year. "I've done everything they asked," he told friends. "What are they waiting for?" As his bitterness turned to anger, Castroite...