Word: castillos
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...Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received the second longest ovation. But the loudest and wildest cheers went to the onetime civil engineer whose appearance on the stage elicited thunders of "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" After taking the oath of office from Julia Castillo Rodas, head of the Legislative Assembly, he waved his arms above his head, then kissed his country's flag. Declared the new President: "Today brings light into the long night of horror that El Salvador has been living through...
...Orient in The Square owner Geil Del Castillo said that Christmas is the time when expensive, "one of a kind" merchandise is sold. Items such as beaded sweaters from China are more likely to be chosen at Christmas than during the other 11 months. Del Castillo explained...
...sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near by the destroyer Fife fired off a fusillade of 75-lb. shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they are on my side." But Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, a leader of El Salvador's moderate Christian Democrats, pleads for more than war games: "If these shows of strength are not accompanied by an equal effort to strengthen democracy, then they...
...Spanish supertanker Castillo de Bellver was lumbering around the Cape of Good Hope, some 75 miles northwest of Cape Town, on its way home with 250,000 tons of Persian Gulf crude oil, when at 1:30 a.m. crewmen discovered a fire near the ship's bridge. The crew attacked the blaze with foam extinguishers, but within minutes the fire was out of control. Said Captain Alfonso Civera: "The whole ship became an inferno...
Left aboard the Castillo de Bellver were Sailor José Vea, who had slept while the ship caught fire, and one other crew member. The two men dived overboard, but after an hour in the icy water Vea realized that he would soon die of exposure...