DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Blood on the Beach

"If aggressors want to see their beards and brains flying like butterflies, let them approach the shores of the Dominican Republic," warned Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A pair of Cuba-based rebel invasion forces—one of 63 men arriving by C46 at the mountain-ringed, mid-island town of Constanza, and another of 150 aboard two Chris-Craft launches that landed near Puerto Plata on the north coast—put the strongman's boast to the test of arms. Last week, both by government and rebel account, Trujillo proved that he meant what he said.

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