About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post.

Today, a short walk from the beach, on the main drag of Calle Pedro Clisante, dozens of prostitutes line the sidewalk in front of the busy open-air restaurants and bars filled with foreign men.

Rafael Trujillo. SOSUA, Dominican Republic, Aug. 11 (JTA) — Luis Hess lives alone in a modest house fronting Avenida Pedro Clisante in the Dominican town of Sosua. At 95, he’s the oldest of a ...