Word: trujillos
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...democratizing committee, and presented it to the conference. In effect, he improvised an unprecedented recognition of the authority and power of two-thirds of the hemisphere nations to supervise the affairs of a single member nation if it strays from democratic standards. The move was aimed at Trujillo, but if OAS-supervised elections became a custom, Fidel Castro might eventually be compelled to hold...
Herter's proposal failed, mostly because he sprang it as a surprise. What worries the U.S. is that while sanctions alone may topple Trujillo. it may leave a vacuum to be filled by Communists and Dominican sympathizers of Fidel Castro. Yet in San Jose, Herter found Venezuela's Arcaya unshakably determined to demand maximum sanctions...
Obscene Fury. Unprepared for such ground breaking, the Latino delegates reacted almost by instinct. They condemned Herter's plan out of hand as a mere trick aimed at letting Trujillo off, accused Herter of being taken in by Trujillo's current show of democracy (last week Trujillo's latest puppet President proposed an amnesty for political crimes...
...closed-door conferences, the U.S. proposal was first incorporated into a compromise that would put sanctions first and supervised elections second; then, at the insistence of Arcaya, it was put aside for discussion at a separate meeting this week. The sentence against Trujillo-which sent Trujillo's delegate walking out in protest: 1) breaking of diplomatic relations down to the consular level; 2) partial economic sanctions, starting with an embargo on arms...
...words are familiar, but not the source. The broadcasts come not from Havana, but from Ciudad Trujillo's Radio Caribe. A month ago, to get revenge on Washington, a former friend now cold to him, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo began vilifying the U.S. with a powerful transmitter-20,000 watts on medium wave, 50,000 watts on short wave...