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Diaz followed, crediting Arbenz with doing "what he thought was his duty," and promising to preserve the social reforms of his regime. Like Arbenz and Rebel Castillo Armas, Diaz is a professional officer; the three were schoolmates at Guatemala's military academy. He is 40, popular in the army and among the people, less provincial than the narrow, little-traveled Arbenz. Last year he publicly declared: "There will be no Communists in the officers' corps while I am in command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there...
Diplomatic Front. Arbenz' ouster complicated diplomatic efforts to deal with the civil war and-more widely-with Guatemala's drift toward becoming a Russian satellite in the U.S.'s backyard...
Right up to the dramatic climax of President Arbenz' forced resignation, the war in Guatemala was a strange, onesided air war, fought by three mysterious F47 Thunderbolts and an absurd little Cessna sports plane, all under the command of the leader of the anti-Communist rebels, Colonel Castillo Armas...
...Guatemala City, meanwhile, F-475 poured bullets into the vitally needed Shell gasoline storage tanks, and 40,000 gallons squirted out. One of the five forts that guard the capital was bombed and set on fire. Arbenz' emphasis, in his radio talk, on how much the air attacks had hurt, was an eloquent restatement of an old principle: in air war, as in poker, a low hand can win the biggest pot when the opponents hold nothing...
...wearing blue armbands with the white dagger and cross of the "Liberation Movement." They fingered black burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket, with a .45 automatic jammed into the belt of his khaki pants...