Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Airline clerks, however, sometimes have a way of being forgetful. Despite his assurances, the clerk neglects to put the package on the direct plane to La Paz. Instead, he routes it to La Paz via Mazatlan. Accordingly, it is put aboard a DC-3's leaving for Mazatlan at 10:15 and due there...
...Jesus Montes . . . Look, this package absolutely must be on the 10:05 direct plane to La Paz in Lower California...
...airport. The heavy package is taken off the plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane to La Paz for which the package was meant is high over the Gulf of California, safe...
That was the drama which confronted Mexican police last week. Quickly, the cops had quite a clue thrust at them: one of the passengers, Jose Alfredo del Valle, 44, was found hanging, a belt around his neck, from a tree in a La Paz park. Cut down and revived, he insisted: "I was just trying to enjoy the view from the tree." The cops showed a picture of Del Valle to the airline clerk in Culiacan. "That," said the clerk, "is the man who called himself Jesus Montes...
...President, fortified with a bottle of Coke, told 50,000 cheering workers and peasants at La Paz's Sport Stadium that his revolutionary program of reforms was just getting started. Next, he shouted, would come free elections (with women voting for the first time), land reform and the reorganization of Bolivian finances...