Word: paz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
...miners tried to get an increase in salaries, and 16 Americans and four Europeans were held as hostages. The government threatened to send troops but was talked out of it for fear of our lives. After radio conversation with our La Paz office, a raise was negotiated about 7 p.m., and we were released...
...Paz, Bolivia, where city officials supposedly have the say on who does business where, the women openly buy and sell prime stalls like seats on the stock exchange. A good location brings as much as $600, and woe betide the male who tries to interfere. In Colombia, the mayor of Bogota once sent city officials to enforce a ruling ordering market women to don white aprons and keep their food off the ground. Market women launched a counterbarrage of rotten tomatoes, and that ended that. In Paraguay, fire hoses were used against the women but were no match for flying...
Thus ended ten days of imprisonment in the dingy tin miners' union hall at Siglo, Veinte, 135 miles from the Bolivian capital of La Paz. Until the end, there was no certainty that the men - pawns in a power struggle between Bolivia's moderate President Victor Paz Estenssoro and its leftist Vice President Juan Lechin - would get out alive. Even after Lechin backed down, many of the rebellious miners whom he leads seemed in a mood to set off a civil war in the bleak Andean nation. They demanded that Lechin appear personally before them to explain...
Grudging Hands. A fine drizzle fell over the 14,000-ft.-high plateau as Lechin arrived at Siglo Veinte. With him were the Archbishop of La Paz, U.S. Consul Charles Thomas, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott, and six other newsmen. A mine siren sounded, and 3,500 grimy miners gathered in front of the union hall. Many of them were in an ugly mood. "Down with the stooges of Yankee imperialism," they chanted. "To the wall! To the wall!" A note of urgent pleading in his voice, Lechin told them that President Paz Estenssoro had promised a fair trial...