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...family of political castaways, the Trujillos manage quite well for themselves. Rhadames Trujillo, 20. youngest son of the Dominican Republic's late unlamented dictator, spends his time in Madrid hanging around nightclubs and cracking up fancy sports cars. His older brother Ramfis, 33. who ruled the country for six months after his father's assassination, is a more serious type, with an ulcer. His major occupation these days is managing the loot the Trujillos carried with them when they took it on the lam from their tiny Caribbean fief...
Silent Bankers. Most Swiss bankers were characteristically mum about the National-Zeitung's story, but showed no eagerness to refute it. In Madrid. Ramfis Trujillo called the story a "slanderous potpourri of half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies'' planted by a former secretary of his playboy brother Rhadames. He couldn't help feeling sorry for himself, in all his luxurious exile: "My entire life was marred and unhappy because I was the heir of Rafael Trujillo...
During a visit to Madrid one day around the turn of the century, Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer of Manhattan bustled into the hotel room of her millionaire husband and airily announced that she was going out to buy an El Greco. With her was Mary Cassatt, the noted American impressionist, who was helping the Have meyers build their great art collection. Said Sugar Tycoon Havemeyer: "You had better add a Goya while you are about it." Replied Painter Cassatt: "Perhaps we may. Who knows?" And with that, the two ladies swept out of the room and off to their mission...
...Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been issued against Spiegel Editor Conrad Ahlers, who was vacationing on the Spanish coast. Even though he willingly would have returned on his own, Spanish cops locked Ahlers...
Although he has achieved distinction as a poet, Reid's intimate knowledge and interpretation of Spain have set him apart as a correspondent with few equals. During the six years he has lived in Spain (first in Madrid, then in Barcelona) the amplitude of his friendship with political, intellectual, and artistic leaders has given him a knight's-eye view of the joustings of Franco and his challengers...