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Speaking before the Pan American Society, Acheson restated the State Department's firm opposition to filibustering expeditions like those of the Caribbean Legion against Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo. Such plots, he noted, "have in themselves been inconsistent with our common commitments not to intervene in each other's affairs . . ." On the other hand he answered critics of the State Department's prompt recognition of military regimes in Peru and Venezuela. Recognition, he said, "need not be taken to imply approval" either of the regimes or their policies. The U.S. stands firmly for democracy and for non-intervention...
Robert Philo, a young civilian employee of the Philco Corp., lost his balance, fell, and was gone. But the rest of the Cochino's peop^-five of them badly burned-managed to save themselves. Two minutes after her captain, Puerto Rico-born Lieut. Commander Rafael Benitez, leaped to safety, the Cochino plunged to the bottom...
...Santiago consulate-general-visited the statues. Over the protests of the Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...
...Guard Your Life." If Arana did not know he was in danger, it was not for lack of warning: the radio station of the Dominican Republic's Arevalo-hating Rafael Trujillo, who has an excellent intelligence service, began interrupting programs with a special message. "Hello, hello Guatemala," said the Voz Dominicana. "Calling
Said Chile's Rafael Irarrazaval Correa, heir to the title of Conde de la Conquista and general manager of a Santiago ready-to-wear firm named Vestex: "I'm a citizen of a democratic nation . . . Don't kid me, please...