Word: chamorro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...command post with a message on one of his calling cards: "Forty-five rebels want to surrender. They have laid down their guns. Please don't come in shooting." A Guard patrol surrounded the house, took the surrender. Three days later Medina's holdout leader, Pedro Joaquln Chamorro, editor-owner of Managua's anti-Somoza La Prensa, also gave himself up. That left 38 rebels still at large, scattered through the hills near the Olama River 65 miles northeast of Managua...
...inspection trip to Guam, largest of the Marianas, convinced him that it was "a Shangri-La in the ocean." Its population of nearly 70,000 (mostly Chamorro-speaking natives, but including 10,000 Filipinos and 20,000 U.S. residents who work in Guam for the U.S.) is prosperous. On the island are nine auto dealers, a bank. 21 bakeries. 28 department stores, 15 movie houses and, adds Engel: "Just think of it, 23 midwives...
Near starvation, her face twisted in pain, seven-year-old Maria was brought to San Salvador's Hospital Benjamin Bloom just in time. While her mother, a poor Indian woman, waited outside, the doctors made an examination. Then Chief Surgeon Carlos Chamorro operated, removed an orange-sized ovarian tumor from the child...