Word: castillo
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...them to strip and dance an incongruous cancan. When the cadets were finally freed, they dashed off to the Eseuela Politecnica (Guatemala's West Point), aroused their fellow cadets and told them of the latest indignity visited upon the regular army by the makeshift militia with which Colonel Castillo Armas seized power from Guatemala's pro-Communist government five weeks...
Elements of the regular army, increasingly resentful of the Liberation Army, quickly seized on the mortification of the cadets as an excuse to rise against the Castillo Armas junta. Two days of swaying, shifting combat caused almost as much bloodshed (29 killed, 91 wounded) as the original revolution. But when it was over, President Castillo Armas seemed to emerge more decisively in command than ever...
...that day, army grudge-settlers had a fiesta. Castillo Armas, caught far off base at a friend's finca near Antigua, made it back to the capital tardily-and then only by leaving his car and skulking through ravines around an army roadblock. By dusk the army had forced him and the junta to agree to disband all irregular forces. Then the cadets and regular army soldiers marched the battered survivors of the anti-Communist Army of Liberation like P.W.s right through the capital's Sixth Avenue to a train that carried them back to their old headquarters...
...Castillo Armas decree left unanswered one big question: Will the United Fruit Co. get back some or all of the 400,000 acres it lost by expropriation under the deposed government? At the moment, the company is being careful to avoid any moves which might embarrass the new government. The company's claim of $15 million as compensation for the lands expropriated by the old regime is still pending, but United Fruit is considered likely now to treat that as just one item in an overall settlement which it hopes to negotiate with the Castillo Armas regime...
...province of Old Castile is the center and heart of Spain, the seat of the nation's gone but remembered glory and power. It is still studded with walled towns and fortresses; its name is derived from castillo, which means castle. Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland. New Castile, which was recovered later from the Moors, borders it on the south. In New Castile lies Madrid, like a gem on a rumpled brown cloth...