Word: salvatierra
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GLENDALE, Calif.--Police said yesterday they arrested the 17-year-old son of a Philippine newspaper executive and the youth's girlfriend for investigation of murder, alleging the two killed Oscar Salvatierra and used political turmoil as a cover for the deed...
Police Chief David J. Thompson said that the since the killing Wednesday, "there has been widespread speculation that Salvatierra's death was politically motivated" by supporters of Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos...
...effort to make them confess that they were planning a revolution and, when they naturally refused to confess a thing of which they were not guilty, they were murdered by a volley of machine gun bullets. . . . Shortly afterward, another group of guardsmen attacked the home of Sofonias Salvatierra, Minister of Agriculture, and killed Socrates Sandino, Augusta's brother, two men and a ten-year...
...warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke...