Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through pattering rain, ten armed soldiers and three officers marched up the driveway of the San Salvador mansion of President Jose Maria Lemus at 10'clock one morning last week. The group's leader drew his pearl-handled Luger pistol, rapped discreetly at the door, waited. The door opened, and there stood Lemus- barefoot, wearing blue pajamas. "What's up?'' he asked. "You are no longer President, my colonel," said the officer. "In fact, you are under arrest...
Still in pajamas, the ex-President was whisked to a downtown fort for 24 hours' safekeeping before flying off to Costa Rica, where his wife Coralia has relatives. In a bloodless power shift, El Salvador's middle and upper classes had acted to remedy a situation that had the makings of a bloody, Castro-style revolution...
...agents of Fidel Castro and by one of the Americas' broadest gulfs between haves and have-nots (average daily agricultural wage: 60?). He outlawed unruly opposition parties, saw to it that persuasive opponents of the regime were jailed. Eight weeks ago Lemus got too tough even for El Salvador. When parading students protested a ban on public meetings, his police responded with clubs, fire hoses and point-blank rifle fire; boys were beaten and several girls were raped. Horrified by such excess and fearful of total, bloody revolt, the nation's respectable moderates organized a preventive coup...
...trade unions, e.g., the bus drivers, have tried to resist the government's emasculation of the unions. Onetime Castro Labor Boss David Salvador, ousted for Communist Jesus Soto, has gone underground, but most unions submit quietly, even beat the drums for "voluntary pay reductions" to help the dictatorship...
Commenting on Nixon's letter, Salvador E. Luria, professor of Microbiology at M.I.T., asserted that development has nothing to do with defense, that a deadlier weapon or larger stockpile is no protection. He further deplored the policy of the present Administration, which has refused to reaffirm a resolution made by President Roosevelt in 1943 to the effect that the U.S. would not use gas or germ warfare unless it was first used by an enemy...