Word: hondurans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formal religion in Honduras, the priests admit frankly, is in deplorable disrepair. Priests said that some 85% of all Honduran children are born out of wedlock. Three illegitimate children per father is "the rule," but ten is "not unusual." Dismayed when one group of children met with blank faces his question, "How many Gods are there?", he was downright horrified when the local schoolteacher coached in a stage whisper: "Five...
...stops will be the common-market arrangement that is gradually taking form throughout the area. The U.S.'s aid experts will inspect the fruits of past aid programs and discuss needs for new ones. Examples: the Export-Import Bank is considering a loan of $500,000 to the Honduran Development Bank, and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration may lend $1,700,000 for school construction in Panama. El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala will want to talk about the troublesome world surplus of coffee...
...unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin (Bainbridge's mayor and Marv's paid state assistant) and six other Griffin administration officials, the governor is a stockholder in Caribe Transport Line, Inc., a company that will this spring take advantage of the facilities, put its one Honduran-flag freighter on a Bainbridge-to-Havana...
...Honduran election brought power at last to Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales, who won an election three years ago but was counted out by back-country political bosses. During the interval, while Honduras was ruled by dictatorship and junta, Villeda went off to Washington as ambassador, gradually moderated some of his leftist ideas. As Villeda stopped talking of doubling and tripling wages, the junta warmed to him, decided to let the voters elect a constituent assembly. In last week's balloting, Villeda's Liberals won 36 out of the 58 seats. The assembly also has legislative powers...
Villeda Morales, freed from the time-honored obligation of leading what would have been Honduras' 135th revolution, said in relief: "The presidency is not worth the life of a single Honduran." President Lozano converted Congress into a Council of State to draft a new constitution under which another, and more decisive election can be attempted - but probably not before...