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...became a serious possibility last year, Washington was inclined to discuss only the expulsion of the undesirables in U.S. custody. Cuba, however, won assurances that routine immigration procedures would be part of a deal too. The arrangement was worked out by Michael Kozak, a State Department lawyer, and Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, a Cuban Foreign Ministry official, in three rounds of meetings in New York City, the most recent and important one just two weeks...
...election, which is scheduled for March 7. The army and the government have agreed on their candidate: conservative Brigadier General Anibál Guevara, a former Defense Minister. His main opponents are Alejandro Maldonado, a lawyer and former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mario Sandóval Alarcón, an outspoken right-winger who sports a pearl-handled revolver and has threatened that if elected his government would kill 1,000 "Communists" a week...
...sparked a flurry of angry charges that either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...
...January, Mijangos, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was shot in the back 27 times as he was leaving his office building-in his wheelchair. His law students tore to shreds a floral wreath sent by the ultraconservative president of Guatemala's congress, Mario Sandoval Alarc...
...firebrand grown conservative, still is a mocker. His gentle irony is aimed partly at the lofty aspirations of youth, and also, less obviously, at the easy com promises of age. The author's characters, particularly those that are, in part, self-caricatures, are drawn with accuracy and wit. Alarcón's description of a selfconscious, self-elected young genius shows why his book is worth Graves's trouble and the reader's time: "A young man, pale and gloomy, who avoids mankind and walks alone through the deserted countryside, a concentration of thought and bile...