Word: plazuela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having built a temporary new chapel on the Plazuela San Martin, the Rev. Gerald Riddell, Baptist missionary from Caddo, Texas, invited the public to attend holiday dedication services. The first night, a crowd massed before the chapel and threw stones through the windows. Missionary Riddell telephoned both the police and the U.S. embassy for help. Through police response was sluggish, the embassy's was not. Ambassador Capus M. Waynick, a Presbyterian from North Carolina, dashed right over in person, stalked past the mob, told Riddell to go on with his service, and stayed himself till the last Amen...
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