Word: palena
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...sore point is called Palena by the Chileans and Rio Encuentro by the Argentines. It consists of 260 mountainous square miles inhabited by wind-battered trees, 240 people and a few head of hardy livestock - in short, precious little and little precious. But because of a surveyor's faulty maps, the arbitrated border was inexactly placed, and regardless of the land's lack of value, both countries heatedly denounced the boundary. For years objections flew back and forth, but it was all fairly harmless until 1963, when Argentine gendarmes suddenly strung up a barbed-wire fence where they...
...eating wolves roam the central and southern provinces, according to information from Rome. During the past two months, several human beings have been devoured?a soldier returning from leave, at Palena; a woman, on a country road. At Vito, on the lower slope of Mt. Vesuvius, females of a church congregation were obliged to barricade themselves in the church while the men attacked a waiting pack of hungry lupines...
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