Word: nchez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Agustin Zoroa Sánchez was handsome in the Latin way, with flashing black eyes, a hairline mustache and amorous lips. Perhaps he loved women, but three things filled his heart: devotion to Communism, resistance to Franco, and a longing for glory...
...Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...
Last month, when 23 Communists were brought to trial, the prosecution identified Agustin Sánchez as the No. 1 Communist in Spain. Said he calmly: "I came ... to help end the tragic situation in which Spain finds herself. I was honored by this mission...
...Governor-General-Pilot) had been no administrative paragon. Examples: the road he built for President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered in their cavalry boots...
...member of the Canadian-U.S. Joint Defense Board; Brigadier General Miguel S. González Cadena, 50, onetime Chief of the Mexican Cavalry, Navy and Air Force; Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, 65, onetime commander of the U.S. Atlantic Squadron; Brigadier General Tomás Sánchez Hernandez, 47, Chief of the Technical Division of the Mexican Army, military historian, now in Rio at the conference of American Republics...