Which Reminds Me

During the week-long soccer war of 1969 between Honduras and El Salvador our family was living in San Salvador. Every night the electricity would be turned off at about 6 p.m. throughout the city so that the Honduran bombers would presumably get lost and be unable to find their city targets. We would spend the evenings sitting on the balcony listening to news reports on the shortwave radio. Local reports said that the Honduran president's wife had left the country with a suitcase containing all of the country's money. We tuned in to a Honduran report that said similar things about the Salvadoran president's wife. So in wartime, both sides of the conflict were engaging in tactics of propaganda. Someone was saying that they know the meaning of the suitcase, that it wasn't actually cash but some key to the country's banking activities. I don't really know anything about that and don't really care what it technically means. I was only talking about the use of propaganda in wartime.