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Colonel-Assassin. It was small wonder, then, that when Guatemalans went to the polls last week, they were receptive to Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio and his strong "law and order" pitch. Arana, 51, is best known to Guatemalans as the commander of the Zacapa Brigade, which virtually wiped out one of Latin America's largest rural guerrilla movements between...
...Arana called himself "the pacifier" but his enemies nicknamed him "the colonel-assassin" for his role in the bloody operation. At least 3,000 were killed in the resulting crossfire; according to some estimates, the victims included about 80 active guerrillas, 500 sympathizers and more than 2,400 innocent peasants...
...brigade's brutal record prompted the government of President Julio César Méndez Montenegro to send Arana off to diplomatic exile in Nicaragua. But when the colonel returned to Guatemala last year to campaign for the presidency, he quickly gained the support of many of his countrymen. "If the voters agree with this insecurity, this chaos," he declared, "then I am not their candidate." Winding up his campaign two weeks ago in Zacapa, where he waged his successful antiguerrilla action, he told an audience of 8,000: "You know what it was like here before...
Guatemalans responded by giving Arana 235,000 votes. The ruling Revolutionary Party's Mario Fuentes Pierrucini drew 195,000, and 117,000 went to Moderate Leftist Jorge ("Big Lucas") Caballeros, who argued that the violence should be stopped "not with a stick but with bread and work." Arana's formal selection by the Congress is regarded as a foregone conclusion...
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild...