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That was too much for fed-up Panamanians. Crowds gathered outside Chichi Remón's headquarters and clamorously demanded that he get rid of Arias. A general strike broke out. That night the National Assembly impeached Arias and swore in Vice President Alcibíades Arose. mena as President. Chichi sent Arias an ultimatum: get out or be booted out. Arnulfo holed up in the presidential palace with his henchmen. Police ringed the palace and began peppering the windows. After a four-hour battle, Arias gave up. As he left the palace under guard, he lifted his hand...
...first day only one fighter was badly hurt, eight others injured. In four days' fighting last year, 144 ticos were hurt, including a woman named Chica Mena who could not resist the temptation to join in. This year's feature: night fighting, with black bulls...
Data on Grandeur. The correspondents who saw Churchill also had, at long last, a look around Mena House, from which they were barred while the conferences lasted. They found Admiral Ernest J. King standing meekly before the transportation desk while a G.I. attendant tried to find his reservation. They sat in General George C. Marshall's chair, assembled some staggering data on the Pacific-Asian and Turkish conferences...
...conferees lived in three types of villas: 1) luxurious; 2) class A; 3) ordinary. One villa, complete with truck farm, had been rented at $6,000 a month. Mena House itself cost $340 daily...
Tenants had been cleared out of the fashionable Mena House hotel, out near the Pyramids, and troops moved in, setting up barbed-wire barricades around an area of three square miles. When the President drove in, his limousine, with curtains drawn, was led by two motorcycle out riders, two jeeps carrying four soldiers with submachine guns at the ready, a command car mounting a machine...