Word: trujillos
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...last surviving example of the medal-jangling school of self-enriching Latin American dictators is executing a cynical maneuver. After 31 years, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a strongman of the extreme right, is turning left. He does so not from conviction, but in an angry tyrant's reaction to the determination of his neighbors-including the U.S.-to be finished with him, and to the mounting desire of his own people to do away with...
...Roosevelt Jr.-if he could ever live down his reputation as 1) a Stork Club playboy, 2) a lackluster candidate who lost by 173,000 votes when he ran for state attorney general in 1954, and 3) a lawyer who once accepted a fee from Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
...Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb has the tibia...
...physician gave evidence to back a Solomonic answer that should satisfy both claimants. Professor Charles Weer Goff, who teaches orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School and physical anthropology at Hartford's Seminary Foundation, says that some of Columbus' remains are in Seville, some are in Ciudad Trujillo...
Back & Forth. While in Spain, Goff also found that not one of the bones in Seville was duplicated in Ciudad Trujillo. His tentative conclusion: Columbus died in 1506 in Valladolid, Spain; his remains were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...