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Aboard a U.S. Air Force Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled 13 months ago against the oppressive regime of the late Dictator Rafael Trujillo could now be lifted. What the OAS found was a nation torn by violence. Even before their plane crossed the island's coastline there was trouble...
Still clad in widow's weeds, Maria Martinez de Trujillo, 56, third wife of assassinated Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, stopped off at New York's Idlewild airport along with five grandchildren whom she was shepherding toward a Swiss school. Ignoring a crowd of 300 demonstrators who spat and shouted "Bloody murderers," the matronly authoress (Moral Meditations, Civic Meditations) attributed the current precarious peace in the Dominican Republic to "the affection the people bore my husband," but "categorically" rejected all talk of a continuation of the dynasty by the current commander of the republic's armed forces...
...four-man OAS inspection team last week reported on its brief June visit through the jails and files of slain Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 62-page report reflected the conflicting views of its authors. The three Latin American members favored a relatively clean bill of health to pave the way for readmission of the Dominican Republic into polite inter-American society. The U.S. pressed for a stronger report, condemning the Trujillos for their many past crimes, skeptical of their promises to reform...
...week's audience was attentive, respectful, but clearly puzzled by both text and music. Showing signs of Schoenberg's restless groping for a new musical language, Jacob's Ladder called for a chamber chorus, two choirs, and the 100-man Cologne Radio Symphony under Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik. Spotted about the hall were speakers through which-in accordance with a marginal note made by Schoenberg in 1944-the distant, taped sounds of two orchestras and a choir were heard. Although there were occasional moments of sustained melody, Jacob's Ladder was for the most part...
...Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to let the Organization of American States send in a team of investigators to see how well he was behaving...