HONDURAS: Mr. Five-by-Five

Genial, spherical, Honduran Ambassador Julián Cáceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. “I say, Caceres,” said the friend, “TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using ‘Pinos de Honduras’ for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought to be hanged from each pine. What luck you aren’t a revolutionary. The pine would surely break.”