Word: chamorro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept under rudimentary lean-tos in jungle thickets, constantly changing locations to avoid discovery by the one enemy who knew the jungles as well as they did: Guam's native Chamorro tribesmen, whom the Americans had assigned to clear the island of Japanese holdouts...
...slightest change in the jungle's normal sounds would send him scurrying from his shelter into the brush, and he and his companions worked out a code of tongue clicks to warn each other of approaching danger. As Itō soon found, no place was really safe. The Chamorros, always armed and forever prowling through the jungles in search of stragglers, discovered his hiding place three times. They killed one of his mates in 1948 and nicked Itō himself with a bullet in 1957. Finally, seven years ago, a Chamorro band caught his last companion climbing a coconut...
...island after the Spanish-American War, lost it to Japan during the chaotic week following Pearl Harbor, and regained it by a bloody amphibious assault in 1944. Ringed by coral reefs, its jungles studded with wild orchids and rusting Japanese tanks, Guam (pop. 76,500) is a melange of Chamorro, Spanish and Japanese stock, yet fully American in its attitudes...
...late for me, but not for my son," says a Guatemala City market matron. Nicaragua's Emiliano Chamorro, a onetime President (1917-1920), and Augusto Cesar Sandino, a revolutionary general (1926-33), were the sons of market women. Other ladies of the market have seen their sons become doctors, lawyers and army officers. Says a U.S. AID official in Bolivia: "These women have social mobility. They are going to be a strong political force in this country...