Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus de Galindez to an appointment with death in the Dominican Republic (TIME, April...
Invited Guests. Both assessments were the product of the big new role that the U.S. has quietly begun to play in the hitherto chaotic affairs of Haiti. President François Duvalier invited the U.S. in. Caught between two strong-arm neighbors -Cuba's Fidel Castro and the Dominican Republic's Rafael Truiillo-Duvalier talked enviously of "Jamaica and Puerto Rico, whose political destinies are stabilized by larger countries." The President frankly described his own bureaucracy as "incompetent...
...colony of embittered Dominican Republic exiles who cluster around the newsstands in Puerto Rico to snap up exported copies of their home-town newspaper, El Caribe, took fresh heart last week. The 92 pictures of Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, published on the occasion of his 68th birthday, showed an unsmiling man grey and haggard with age. Trujillo has lost 20 lbs. lately-whether intentionally or not is his own secret. In his 29th year as boss, the dictator has had to cut back on his old candle-burning office schedule at a time when his regime faces mounting problems...
...congressional Deputy accused Plaza of "exploiting a corpse" and "trying to capture votes, not souls." The bitter anti-Peronists who run the army called Plaza in for a talk. Undeterred, Plaza pleaded on TV for an end to Peron's exile in the Dominican Republic. "The church cannot want any of its sons to suffer," he said, "and it is to be supposed that an Argentine exiled from his country lives in suffering." At week's end part of the front of Plaza's house was blasted off by unknown bomb setters-a hint of the passions...
...would also be a threat to Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has 45 Vampires and the men to fly them. Castro has jailed so many Cuban air force pilots as "war criminals'' that he cannot get his present fighter force (two P-51s, twelve P-47s and 17 Sea Furies) off the ground. The accepted method of combatting the clandestine flights from Florida is to send out cops in squad cars to race along the highways to try to find the planes when they land...