Word: trujillos
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Full in the act of stamping out a threatened uprising by some 2,000 business and professional men and women, Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo last week got an ominous warning from the Roman Catholic Church. It came in a pastoral letter like those the church directed against Argentina's Juan Peron, Venezuela's Marcos Perez Jimenez and Colombia's Gustavo Rojas Pinilla just before their downfalls. Signed by all six bishops of the Dominican Republic, the letter was a politely furious response to the imprisonment of 2,000 leading citizens packed off to La Victoria...
...high Dominican society, one of the most enduring institutions has been the 22-year engagement of Hector Trujillo, 51, and Alma McLaughlin, 38. Both come from top families: he is the youngest brother of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and nominal President of the country; she is the daughter of onetime U.S. Marine Sergeant Charles McLaughlin, who stayed on after the 1916-24 occupation to become a colonel in Trujillo's army and president of the Dominican Airline. Last week, before 1,600 guests in white ties and formal gowns, in a wedding party that included the dictator as best...
...brigadier general. The engagement was announced, and Hector approached the dictator about setting a wedding date. The strongman's reply: a stern lecture on the duty of the youngest son to live with and take care of his mother: aging (now 93) Dona Julia Molina de Trujillo...
...mansion on Doctor Delgado Street. For his share of the family fortune, Hector got a monopoly on peanut oil, and with the aid of prohibitive tariffs on other cooking oils, he got rich. As youth faded, he developed modest hobbies : collecting fine horses at his Engombe Ranch outside Ciudad Trujillo, collecting shoes (he has more than 200 pairs). The dictator tapped him for the presidency in 1952, but unobtrusive Hector had no pretension that the job gave him power. "Don't ask me; I'm just the President," he tells visitors. To avoid the bother of reading state...
...fortnight ago Dictator Trujillo reversed himself on the marriage with a curt newspaper announcement just a week before the wedding. For society, the marriage creates a unique problem. Confusingly but officially, the Dominican Republic already has two First Ladies, old Dona Julia and the dictator's wife Maria. Now plump and pretty Alma McLaughlin becomes the third...