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...Ramon Villeda Morales in a bloody 1963 coup, since 1972 had ruled Honduras by decree and without a Congress. During his only elected term in office, from 1965 to 1971, López led his troops in the '69 four-day "Soccer War" with neighboring El Salvador, a bloody fracas that claimed more than 2,000 lives and devastated the nation's economy. He returned to power in 1972 by ousting the elderly, constitutionally elected President Ramón Ernesto Cruz...
...Thieu to step down. I think it is a mistake to intervene; you take the responsibility for what comes after. I don't know what the U.S. did or didn't do in Chile, but those who are so vocal condemning our actions toward [Marxist President Salvador] Allende [now] want us to do something about Thieu. I think it would be immoral...
...number about several hundred, although they are completely underground and there is no certain way to gauge their strength. They reveal themselves from time to time in unexpected ways: a worker who makes deliveries between Managua and Leon says he picked up a Sandinista who was hitchhiking to El Salvador to buy arms, and people in Managua are said to run after automobiles that quickly strew the Front's literature in the darkened streets...
...unfortunate at present in having a highly imperialistic administration. I think that by far most Americans are deeply shocked--indeed can hardly believe it--when they learn that their government secretly subverted and helped to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile under its democratically elected President Salvador Allende...
Hortends Russide Allende, widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende, who died in a September 1973 coup, will deliver an address to the Harvard Law School Forum on April...