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. Despite publicity enough for a Hollywood premiere (TIME, Aug. 11), the Dominican plotters were still preparing.

Trujillo made no bones about it. He had not been able to find out just when & where the invaders would land to start a Dominican uprising that in the end might profit trouble-hunting Communists more than anyone else, although the plotters in Cuba still tried to keep the Commies out of the act. One night last week Trujillo pulled his bodyguards out of a party and went down to the beach. There he prowled around for a long time and scared out to sea.

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