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From under a hot towel the dictator resumed a conversation with some visitors; he rumbled a volley of curses against Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo, Tacho's worst enemy and the Legion's most forthright backer. As Tacho well knows, Arévalo is winking at the arming and training of Nicaraguan exiles to lead a revolution against his Nicaraguan neighbor...
Tacho rammed a Chesterfield into a holder, squinted off toward the Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into...
...doesn't sound as though the jinx lays heavily on Brown this year. And why should it? With Dick Harlow on their side, with six straight victories after losing their Yale game opener behind them, Brown is truly loaded for b'ar as it prepares to make it seven straight...
Last month they went to Guatemala City for strategy talks with Arévalo and Nicaraguan exile leaders. Last week they made their first move. Guatemalan-registered air transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger...
...rine Gunnery Sergeant on retirement pay), we have all we can do to exist - let alone spend money for magazines. But we have some friends who know how much good read ing means to us and who send us their mag azines as they finish with them. They ar rive at our home in strange sequence: a 1936 copy of Reader's Digest, for instance, hug ging a current issue of TIME. But it matters little to us; we cherish each copy with the same joy we'd have in receiving a crisp new $100 bill...