Word: equatorian
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...rising "reform" dictator. Lopez mulcts tourists and gets a kickback from the police. This pair of wily thugs equip shifts of demonstrators to parade before the U.S. embassy with slogans suggesting that the latest revolutionary coup is a Communist takeover. The hoax works. Soon U.S. planes are flying the Equatorian "Freedom Fighters" to Washington. The fact that the "resistance heroes" consist mainly of Lopez, Pardo and nightclub floozies scarcely fazes ERRA, the Equatorian Refugee Relief Administration, which is shortly manned by 3,000 paper shufflers. Since "revolutions become habit-forming," Lopez and Pardo vamoose, and the Equatorian girls run away...
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