Word: paz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...
...thousand feet above sea level, in La Paz, "Highest Capital in the World," President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was last week insulted...
Citizens of La Paz, Bolivia, sought the polls last week for a municipal election. As each approached the ballot box his right hand was seized by a policeman who tattooed the palm with a special stamp...
...plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After a few trial hops, he had given exhibitions. Then, with his crutches strapped to the fuselage, he had flown 1,100 miles up the wintry Andes to La Paz, Bolivia, and back. After that he flew 730 miles right over the Andes, over 18,000-foot crags, snowy "saddles" and wind-blown pampas, to Buenos Aires. When he landed he had ,two gallons of gasoline left-enough for three more minutes in the air. His bones not yet having...
...with foresight President Saavedra had assembled 6,000 troops at La Paz and he was able to "postpone" the inauguration of Villanueva (TIME, Sept. 7) while he cast about for means of ousting him. The means were found...