Word: trujillos
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...four-man OAS inspection team last week reported on its brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave the way for readmission of the Dominican Republic into polite inter-American society. The U.S. pressed for a stronger report, condemning the Trujillos for their many past crimes, skeptical of their promises to reform...
...result was a compromise of sorts. The four ambassadors noted, without comment, that the government had declared "its intention to bring about a democratic transformation," had pledged never again to meddle in the internal affairs of another state-a reference to Trujillo's plot to murder Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt. The OAS team also noted charges that police repressions continued even after the old dictator was dead. Conclusion: "It would be premature to determine the depth of change in the character and policy of the Dominican Republic...
...Invitation. In Ciudad Trujillo, President Joaquin Balaguer immediately invited the OAS investigators to return and see for themselves. He also sent personal invitations to a number of leading Latin American jurists to attend the trial of the accused assassins of Dictator Trujillo...
...President, is nonetheless widely regarded as a sincere and decent man. He appears to have more to be proud of than to hide. There were still scattered reports of strong-arm repressions: 20 arrests in the city of Santiago. the "accidental" death of a youth jailed for ripping Trujillo's picture off a nightclub wall. The government outlawed the far-left Movimiento Popular Dominicano...
...terse cable informing him that she had a baby boy in Rome" (Louella Parsons), that "when enameled bathtubs and lavatories become yellow, rub with a solution of salt and turpentine to restore the whiteness" (Bert Bacharach), and, in a quick switch to weightier matters, that the Dominican Republic under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned its attention (for 21 column inches) to a man in Greenwich Village who had just acquired a 1936 Dodge, reported that "that was indeed Joe Wade...