Word: roncador
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...unusual even for Central America, began another round in what local newspapers have grandiloquently dubbed "the war of the flags." In fact, it is quite possibly the world's silliest international dispute. Nicaragua and Colombia are battling for jurisdiction over Quita Sueño and two smaller islets, Roncador and Serrana-all desolate, uninhabited specks of sand, coral and rock that vanish from sight during high tide...
...flag around Serrana. As it happens, he did so more or less as an afterthought. The Colombian ships could not find Quita Sueño, which apparently was under water at the time, and the seas were too rough for the voyagers to make a beachhead on Roncador...
Wild Welcome. Three years ago wiry I.P.S. man Francisco Mereiles narrowly missed the same fate on a peacemaking expedition near the Chavantes' Serra do Roncador (Snoring Mountain). Ambushed, he whipped his gift-laden burro off into the jungle and escaped while the Indians chased and killed the burro. Manfully turning the other deep-tanned cheek, Mereiles kept right on wooing the Chavantes with gifts of cloth and aluminum pots dropped strategically along their forest trails. Eventually, tribesmen began slipping across to the white man's side of the River of Deaths, asking for gifts and gulping down...
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