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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...
...strange tyrant in Cuba (who arms the populace he "terrorizes") and his revolution, de present a challenge to Latin America and the U.S. For the former, the challenge is to accomplish a similar revolution without being forced into either of the world blocs. For the U.S. the only challenge that exists is to understand the Latin American, and then to aid Castro in his attempts to bring to the majority of Cubans--suppressed for so many decades--the kind of life we have and boast of. And indeed, this is the challenge given us by all Latin America, which will...
...disreputable coattails. "We prefer facism to the independence of Algeria," writes Aron of the position of the "Ultras" and adds in a revealing comment, "but the man to whom they have given absolute power has the soul of a paternal monarch or of a princo-president, not of a tyrant...
...mulo Betancourt rode through the city streets in the presidential limousine chatting to Defense Minister Josue Lopez Henríquez and Mrs. Henriquez, who were beside him. A onetime leftist grown moderate with the years, Betancourt came to power two years ago after the overthrow of the tyrant Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and devoutly hopes to symbolize an end to the traditional violence of oil-rich Venezuela. Chauffeur Azael Valero swung the black presidential car onto the Avenida de los Próceres near the school. Ahead on the divided street sat a parked 1954 green Oldsmobile...
...social scale-in the Holmby Hills Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra), in the Kosher Rat Pack (Groucho Marx and friends), even in the exclusive A Group (top studio brass and long-established superstars, like Gary Cooper). For all his gregariousness, he can be cruel without reason, successfully plays the domestic tyrant. At dinner one evening, his wife Audrey announced brightly: "Darling, do you realize this is our anniversary?" Replied Wilder: "Please-not while I'm eating." Says Playwright George Axelrod: "Billy is essentially, not personally, mean. Most of his meanness goes into his work. He sees the worst in everybody...