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Leaders of the Honduran University Students' Federation rallied for a flag-planting voyage into the Caribbean last week. The Tegucigalpa daily, El Cronista, talked darkly of conflict with "American adventurers." At issue were the Swan Islands-three specks of sand and coconut palm 100 miles off the Honduran coast, which constitute the U.S.'s only currently disputed territorial claim. Cause of the new controversy: the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey last month reminded everyone of the U.S. claims by dispatching Captain E. L. Jones aboard the survey ship Explorer to take a thorough census of the islands...
...never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious death." His acquaintances said that he grumbled incessantly against President Somoza. His act was patently suicidal, and his motive may well have been an itch for self-glorification...
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