Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvador Dali, surrealist painter and publicist whose trademarks are droopy watches, meandering cyclists and gangrenous torsos, promised Manhattan a show this winter, and assured the world that art could do much "to promote greater understanding between nations; it is the only international language that people can understand...
...just so much scenery. The real guts of this charter are in the parts which attempt to set up constructive goals toward which all the powers can strive together. The Security Council is defective because in it power is too concentrated. The General Assembly is defective because El Salvador and Liberia are unrealistically given as many votes as the U.S. and Great Britain. These defects won't be remedied unless the world changes enough to make major improvements possible. And the world won't change unless the curative provisions of the present charter are used to bring about...
Salvadoran Army officers tried to topple El Salvador's new up-&-coming Government last week. Into President Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
...second plane, piloted by Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...
...revolt petered out, rebels bolted like rabbits for Guatemala and Honduras (whose President Tiburcio Carias Andino was reported to have had a hand in the plot). Another rumored instigator, El Salvador's ex-President Osmin Aguirre, who does not like the present Government's more liberal program and federation-with-Guatemala plans, had remained discreetly in the background...