Word: chamorros
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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...
...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...
...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...