Word: honduran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tensions were brought to flash point last month by a series of soccer games. A three-game play-off was held to decide who would represent Central America in the World Cup soccer championship this year. El Salvador's team went to "Tegoose" (as Yankees call the Honduran capital) and lost 1-0 in overtime. Until game time for the rematch in the Salvadoran capital a week later, the Honduran players had to be hidden outside San Salvador. The Salvadorans won, and Hondurans retaliated by vandalizing Salvadoran stores in their country and boycotting Salvadoran goods. El Salvador accused Honduras...
...Attacks. As Salvador's old C-47 unloaded its bomb on the Honduran capital, six World War II-vintage Mustangs, which comprise the bulk of El Salvador's air force, hit several Honduran garrison towns. Next morning, Hondurans wheeled out its eleven old, fold-wing Corsairs and sent them to bomb Esso oil tanks at two Salvadoran ports, Acajutla and Cutuco...
...Salvador's ground troops attacked the provincial capital of Nueva Ocotepeque, in Honduras' southwest corner. A brigade commanded by Colonel Mario ("El Diablo") Velázquez Jandres, a hefty green-eyed man who sports modish sideburns, pressed poorly led Honduran units into a narrow defile, then battered them and the town with 75-mm. artillery and mortar fire...
Chased by El Diablo's troops, Honduran soldiers and civilians alike fled over the nearby Guatemalan border. American Franciscan Father Roderick Brennan, Ocotepeque's parish priest, estimated that he saw 500 dead Hondurans after the battle, 100 of them civilians. El Salvador claimed losses of only 18 soldiers killed. The blue and white flag of El Salvador flew over the nearly deserted Honduran town...
...week's end, both countries accepted an OAS cease-fire proposal. It called for a withdrawal of Salvadoran troops from Honduran territory in return for a Honduran pledge to protect the lives of Salvadorans in Honduras. An OAS peace-keeping force would stand guard along the border until tempers cooled. Since both sides seemed to have exhausted their ammunition and war planes, there was hope that the truce might turn into a permanent peace...