Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak...
...showdown cabinet meeting last week, Lechin backed down. Afterwards, addressing 15,000 partisans with Paz Estenssoro, he made a mild speech terming nationalization "an act of national defense." Later he added: "We shall nationalize, but we shall have to study the matter. Surely no one thought I was serious when I mentioned 30 days...
...Paz also announced an army purge. Thirty-six officers, among them eleven generals, have been discharged to face trial for alleged crimes committed under the preceding regimes since...
...fast to nationalize the all-important tin mining industry. Juan Lechin, tough boss of the republic's 40,000 tin miners and the new Minister of Mines, demanded swift action, and talked as though the job could be done in a month or so. But President Victor Paz Estenssoro insisted that nationalization must be carried out slowly and cautiously...
...Salvador Paz Guerra, forger and prison-jumper, who had smilingly lighted a cigarette when a judge gave him 20 years, had to be dragged from his cell. Jose Colombres, a six-foot, pock-marked murderer, knelt tearfully and begged to stay. When a convicted murderess' name was called, she split the air with a scream, "Virgin of Guadalupe, have mercy...