Word: meanguera
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...want to tell you something. I'm going next week to Torola. I'm going to build a bridge. One of the things that was on the table [at La Palma] was a letter written by the people of Meanguera, Torola and other towns [near the Torola River]. These people had written to both sides to let them rebuild the bridge, not to destroy it. Today we started the project. The people are moving back, they are going to rebuild their houses...
This winter, however, the guerrillas launched an offensive that enabled them to score several psychologically damaging victories by briefly holding the towns of Berlin, Corinto and Meanguera. Alarmed, Lieut. General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, sent National Security Adviser William P. Clark a report that the military situation in El Salvador was actually far worse than the U.S. embassy was saying...
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