The 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 ...

The top floor of the nine-story Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. is barred to casual visitors. When an elevator passes the floor below or there are footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ...

PROVIDENCE — The grandson of one of the Dominican Republic's most prominent and controversial figures addressed a crowd of approximately 250 people at the Five Star Restaurant, on Bucklin Street, on ...

'After two or three weeks, instead of the usual plate of foul-smelling cornmush, a pot with pieces of meat was brought to them in their cell ... A short time later the jailer came in. He confronted ...