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LIBERAL guerrillas were in the neighborhood, and the 600 stoutly Conservative residents of San Pedro de Jagua knew well that their homes might be struck next. Children chattered fearfully about Tulio Bautista and other leaders of la chuzma (or "bandits," as the Liberal raiders are known). Early this year San Pedro's citizens organized a raid-warning system among the outlying plantations and ranches. Any farmer who spotted bandits coming was to sound the alarm by setting off a dynamite bomb...
...pocket money, paraded the streets with Zulu-dark girls, while Cape Town's white Portuguese chatted happily in their mother tongue with handsome, mahogany-brown Brazilians. Local police tried desperately to figure out which were black, which were white and which in-betweens, finally gave up. Brazilian Captain Pedro Paulo de Aranjo Suzano was no help at all. Said he: "They are all Brazilians...
...Munoz plan occurred last fall, when lunatic-fringe Nationalists tried to assassinate President Truman and Governor Munoz to block registration for this week's vote. Horrified, Puerto Ricans repudiated the Nationalists. Now serving a sentence of seven to 15 years for his part in the plot, Nationalist Boss Pedro Albizu Campos was under examination by psychiatrists last week to determine whether he is sane...
...Local Level. In San Pedro, Calif...
When Luisa becomes ill and insane, and Amelia enters her convent, and Pedro denounces Juan to the Falange, Which shoots him down in the street, Don Antolin decides to take Lucia with him back to England. The book ends as he leads her to the airport, impelled by a desire to build for her the life he could not give his real children...