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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
July 28, 196028 de julio de 1960 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star · Washington, D.C. · July 28, 196028 de julio de 1960
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1960-07-28/ed-1/?sp=46

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The *Evening Star* reported that Representative Harold D. Cooley criticized the State Department for withholding authorized sugar purchases from the Dominican Republic, arguing the administration was improperly playing politics with the Sugar Act. U.S. officials defended the hesitation, noting the administration faced criticism for transferring sugar quotas from Fidel Castro's dictatorship to Rafael Trujillo's regime.

El *Evening Star* informó que el congresista Harold D. Cooley criticó al Departamento de Estado por retener las compras autorizadas de azúcar a la República Dominicana, argumentando que el gobierno manipulaba indebidamente la Ley del Azúcar con fines políticos. Los funcionarios estadounidenses defendieron su vacilación, señalando que la administración enfrentaba críticas por transferir cuotas azucareras de la dictadura de Fidel Castro al régimen de Rafael Trujillo.

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The full text of this article is still being prepared. Until it is ready, this page carries a summary, the passage found on the page, and the link to the original, which is always one click away.El texto completo de este artículo aún se está preparando. Hasta que esté listo, esta página lleva un resumen, el pasaje encontrado en la página y el enlace al original, que siempre está a un clic.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

terday there are indications,

"Peru was. cut short” in the

recent authorization for special

purchases.

The Agriculture Department,

i working with the State De-!

partment’s approval and guid

ance, announced recently that

purchase of an added amount

of sugar from the Dominican

Republic had not been author-

ized "at this time.”

Officials said privately that

in the case of the Dominican i

Republic, the United States

have been criticized for

“taking the sugar away from

the Fidel Castro dictatorship,

and giving it to the Dominican

dictatorship.”

Mr. Cooley did not mention

the Dominican Republic in his

I statement, but told a reporter

/later “the State Department

has no right under the law to

play politics with the Suifar

Act, and the Dominican Re- i

public is one of our most im-'

portant and closest sources of

sugar. If the administration

had followed the law, instead

of evading it. the price rise

would not have occurred.”

Officials said Peru did not I

get its full share of the July 21!

J purchase authorizations be-;

cause it lacked by about 65.000

tons the sugar to meet its 1

normal part of the alloca-'

Itions.

Pilot Burns Out

Tires on Landing

CLEVELAND, July 28 iAP>.

—The tires of an Eastern Ail

Lines DC-7 were burned out

last night as the pilot furi

ously tried to brake the 45-ton

ship to a halt on the main

runway at Cleveland Hopkins

Airport after he was unable to

reverse the plane's propeller

I pitch. The reversal acts as a

braking operation to slow the

plane’s 80-mile-an-hour land

ing speed.

The four-engine aircraft,

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1960). Washington, D.C., 1960-07-28. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1960-07-28/ed-1/?sp=46

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1960-07-28.

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