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...Eluding a blockade of U.S. and British naval vessels, he landed with some 100 men, captured a small town and then fled into the jungle when a British man-of-war arrived. Twelve days later, a bone-tired Walker was captured by a British naval officer, handed over to Honduran authorities, court-martialed and shot. "Had he succeeded," says Truman, somewhat unconvincingly, "he might have made a successful contribution to the organization of the Central American situation, into which he wanted to include Cuba-all of which might have influenced the shape of affairs we have with us today...
Died. Samuel Zemurray, 84, longtime boss of the United Fruit Co., a hard-knuckled Russian immigrant who carved out a Central American business empire in the early 1900s by such tactics as engineering a Honduran revolution, gained control of United Fruit in 1932 and ran it for nearly two decades with the brusque earthiness of a man who preferred the company's tropical plantations to its Boston board rooms; of Parkinson's disease; in New Orleans...
...main training bases in Guatemala, and at staging bases at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and tiny Swan Island off the Honduran coast, fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built...
...Honduran title dates back to the original Spanish conquest of Central America in the 16th century. Every few years (most recently in 1957), Honduras renews its claim with a polite, formal note to Washington. The State Department as politely rejects it, pointing out that the islands were first settled by a Brooklyn guano firm in 1857. In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years. Amateur explorers pitted the islands in unsuccessful hunts for buried pirate gold...
...tourist track and have almost no fresh water. In their spare time, the recent U.S. explorers collected butterflies, iguanas and a variety of legless lizards. They found no swans, however; the islands take their name from an English pirate, and swans are as hard to find there as Honduran settlers...