The San Juan Star (4 abr. 1960)

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3 By EDWARD

York

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Rules correspondent just- returned

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The préssure within the Dominican Republic is ear the bursting point. But Generalisimo ‘ Rafae Leonidas. Trujillo Moina turns on his bland smile, radiates confidence nd goes on fuling like an ancient oriental despot.

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the

that

bland

will.

mountainous,

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smile

At

68

he

tropical

especially from

make

They

Opponents

are

has

country

speeches

have

those he knows

are

required

in which

a steel-trap

had

Mastery

for

thirty

mind

to march

he

to

to. be his

write

is extravagantly

in review

before

him

In a restless age he Tee

to

in big

h

his

vast

ic Deaths: . 1960 Toll T

San

Juan

passengers of a four-car cavalcade hat wound slowly through the

Streets of the old city. | Accompanied by his host, Aristotle Onassis, and British Consul

ill—former First Lord of the Adaf Great Britain, and holder of the Nobel Prize for literature— ‘as seeing the sights. |

ashore of Onassis’s

CHURCHILL

AND

ast 20 Years

day

in a television past

the

“most

Rican

two

dramatic”

have

that}

bee

in Puerta

Four

er.

residents. The sons

Governor in

wages

cited and

Rican

—he

}-

workers é¢arned half of tha (See MUNOZ, Page 4)

a

nor

is

young

man

“angry.”

drawn

‘human moved

b

tween past and present, | He recalled that in 1949 suga’ workers were earning only 1 cents hourly and that coffe

is

neither

He

Rey,

Santos,

A. Perez

28,

of

and

28,

Isi-

of the

housing

pro.”

car collided with a truck and ‘another car on the Caguas highway Saturday in the vicinity of La! Muda. Luis

Gonzalez

Nieves,

Arecibo; killed when (See FATALITIES,

36,

of

he was rePage 4)

‘Angry’

seria.

¢ of the last photos of Sir Win-

LAST LOOK—This is on ston, and his famous cigar, taken before the British war-

| time prime minister left San Juan to return to London. (STAR photo by Gunter Hettl) 1

to

tragedy. by

the

scene

of

Emotionally

the. “tragedy”

of

the

‘Puerto Rican in New York, Wa. ‘kefield, as he indicates in -his book, could not help “Island in the City.”

but

write

When we visited him late last

year he. lived in a two-room

in

Greenwich

Village..

He.

he spoke

of an

with

author

the

who

detachment

has finished

is a his) book and, as it were, closed

young man who likes to write Wakefield lived in and wrote ‘about the world of Spanish Har‘lem because—like most writers

comparihealth

He

“beat”

and .was directe City’s Puerto

(Chiro)

Artache,

Hato

is being

‘sader, sociologist or social work-

the island “achieved more progress than in the four previous’ centuries.” i The speech was delivered ove York

57 in-

beginning today. See Page 14). ; By A. W. MALDONADO ke freely of his book. and his: Dan. Wakefield, author of “Is- experiences during his six-month land in the City,” is not a cru- stay in Spanish Harl em. But

He said that in these 20 years

to New

Cruz

lized in the STAR

history.

Channel

and

(STAR reporter A. W. Maldo here recalls a visit with Dan Wakefield, whose book; “Islannado d In The City,”

yester-

speech

decades

St.,

‘Beat’ Nor

NEW YORK (AP)—Governdr the

1

\Wakefield’s Neither

With Pride To said

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ject, who were killed when their

Churchill, who yesterday concluded a Caribbean tour on Onassi’s yacht, left San Juan on a flight back to London. The two are riding in the car of Reginald Hall, Britis h consul in San Juan. (STAR photo by Gunter Hett.)

Murioz Points

Navarre

}Manuel

ONASSIS—Sir Winston Churchill and Greek shipping tycoon Arisone totle Onassis are shown during a sightseeing tour of San Juan on Saturd ay.

(See CHURCHILL, Page 3) |

Marin

thé.

10%

deaths

were:

dro

recipient of the Order lof

the Garter, former Prime Minister

Mufioz

But

Tel. 3-8400.

weekend

_€armelo

Reginald Hall, Sir Winston Church-

Luis

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juries -were reported by Police for the weekend just ended. The fatalities raised the 1960 highway toll on the island to 87; an. increase of 22 over that Ss for the same period last year, Among those killed over the

ial’

“Winnie” stayed hour, taking leave

wert

4

Rice

Six traffic

Winston

That’s what the shoppers said San Juan Saturday afternoon when they recognized the distinguished

miralty,

Puerto

hha

Fatalities 22 Mere — Than’59

HETT Es

program,

Second-class postage .paid

at

ours City — Mira!

works

Ail

Sir Winston “Mira!

public

s

San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday,” April 4, 1960

Churchill!”

ernie

(See TRUJILLO, Page 4)

Jubilant GUNTER

Latin Ame-

té swift arrest and loss of . At 68 he has accomplished many material things throug

praised.

_

waye

on the part of his people, Failure to praise Gezi Trujillo at even the smallest Meeting has lead

6 Tra

By

great

Tica,

enemies, or

struggle. involves one

‘strong man’s attempt |to withstand the. of change that has toppled dictators .in

years.

letters

Dominican

Essentially, the

over

parades. And they ‘have to denounce close relatives .who have been jailed as enemies of the’ state.

the San

DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY ol.

an iron

But Trujillo, like so many dictators, continues to demand greater, evidence of support and solidarity,

(C. BURKE

Times News

Behind and

Unea sy Nation

flat

spo-

the door behind

him.

Out Of Contact Now: He said that he was no Yong:

er in contact. with Spanish Har. lem except_for occasional Participation in the Narcotics Com-

mittee of the East Harlem

testant he had

Pro-

Parish. He added that no plans to write more

about .Puerto

Ricans.

: Wakefield was born in Indianapolis 28 years ago. Is 4 he went to New York to study. (See WAKEFIELD, Page ;3) +

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