DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Plotters

Somewhere in eastern Cuba, Dominican exiles lined up the team that would take over when the great day came—if it came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator....

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