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Still clad in widow's weeds, Maria Martinez de Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat and shouted "Bloody murderers," the matronly authoress (Moral Meditations, Civic Meditations) attributed the current precarious peace in the Dominican Republic to "the affection the people bore my husband," but "categorically" rejected all talk of a continuation of the dynasty by the current commander of the republic's armed forces...
...victims had one thing in common. All three were opponents of the Trujillo regime, and all were highly vocal partisans of the burgeoning new oppositionist group, the National Civic Union. Cabrera dis tributed the U.C.N.'s Santiago newspaper. Martinez and Clisante had helped transport people to a U.C.N. rally at Puerto Plata only the day before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying...
...deliberately assaulted the Sosúa army post in broad daylight. But few Dominicans believed the official version, and perhaps (the uses of terror being what they are) were not expected to. The killings were the ugliest blot to date on the liberalized regime of Ramfis Trujillo, who took over when his dictator father was assassinated three months ago. They were also a reminder that, while Ramfis may have eased things up in the Ciudad Trujillo capital, life in the isolated back country remains as tightly controlled as before...
Despite opposition fears that the Trujillos will never leave power without a blood bath ("It's only a matter of time before they slice us up like hot dogs," said one U.C.N. leader last week), there are many observers who feel that things could be worse in the Dominican Republic. The country has not yet degenerated into civil war or Communism. There are also some small signs that Ramfis Trujillo may be finding his father's mantle a little heavy. In an hour-long interview with a New York Times correspondent last week, Ramfis pleaded for a resumption...
...parties. One led by three returned exiles, reported signing up 800 new members a day, were met by crowds so exuberant that they even embraced the police escorts. Another group, known as the National Civic Union, signed up 2,500 members in a three-day canvass of the non-Trujillo upper classes. The party's first act was to buy a two-page ad in El Caribe criticizing the government. Balaguer answered with a 2,000-word letter agreeing that changes were needed, but asking for patience. "You want the country to be converted into a new Switzerland...