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...plane doors opened and out rolled a bomb that landed harmlessly in a muddy field. It was the Honduran capital's first taste of the tragic and senseless miniwar that erupted last week between Honduras and El Salvador. At two points along the ill-defined border, Salvadoran troops pushed into Honduras, and the small air force of each country flew raids against military and industrial targets. After five days of fighting, the Organization of American States managed to impose an uneasy ceasefire...
...home, Salvadorans have of necessity become scrambling go-getters who have achieved a substantial level of industrialization. As expatriates in Honduras, Salvadorans have excelled as farm workers and shopkeepers. Increasingly, Hondurans began to resent the Salvadoran intruders, who sometimes took jobs and land away from local people. Honduras last year decreed a land reform, ostensibly to create more equitable distribution of its farm acreage. But one major effect was to deny Salvadorans the right to own land. Many Salvadorans, forced off their Honduran farms, began to return to their overcrowded homeland...
Mobs of Honduran hoodlums terrorized Salvadoran settlers by setting fire to their houses if they failed to heed warnings to leave. Salvadorans wrote to relatives at home telling of murder and rape by Honduras toughs. More than 11,000 Salvadorans fled Honduras, and frequent small clashes took place along the border...
...three-game play-off was held to decide who would represent Central America in the World Cup soccer championship this year. El Salvador's team went to "Tegoose" (as Yankees call the Honduran capital) and lost 1-0 in overtime. Until game time for the rematch in the Salvadoran capital a week later, the Honduran players had to be hidden outside San Salvador. The Salvadorans won, and Hondurans retaliated by vandalizing Salvadoran stores in their country and boycotting Salvadoran goods. El Salvador accused Honduras of pursuing a policy of genocide against the Salvadoran people, and both countries broke...
Next stop was San Salvador, where he was almost mobbed by a cheering crowd as he rode along in an open, unprotected car (a rarity for any Latin American President). There, Díaz Ordaz promised technical assistance, preferential tariffs, private Mexican venture capital for developing Salvadoran industries. Also announced: a $6,000,000 loan to the four-year-old Central American Bank in Honduras...