Word: ars
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Like the Dominican Republic's Balaguer, Méndez faces some heavy historical adds. Since Guatemala's inde pendence in 1847, only one civilian President, Leftist Juan Jose Arévalo (1945-51), has completed his term. Besides an itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side...
Plea for Defenses. Wilson was also receiving criticism last week on the colony of Aden and the South Arabian Federation, which is due for package independence in 1968. Early in the week four South Arabian Cabinet ministers ar rived in London to discuss ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple...
...Harvard political sociologist will spend eight months in Vietnam working with Vietcong defectors in as effort to improve the "Open Ar me Program"--the official attempt to bring more of the Vietcong over to the government...
...first settlement of Captain Ar thur Phillip-redcoats and canary-yellow clad convicts-nearly starved to death. A relief ship came with food and news of the French Revolution Says Moorehead: "What did they make of the terror? Were the convicts delighted that the underdog was having its day? Did any of them pause to reflect that in France, the most sophisticated country on earth, one could watch the guillotine at work in the public streets with sadistic indifference, while here in New Holland the aborigine, the most primitive of all human beings, burst into tears when he watched...
...Western railroads get the worst of this arrangement. In the U.S., the heaviest flow of bulk-product rail traffie moves from West to East, as Western states ship their grains and other raw materials eastward for finishing. Once a Western-owned boxcar has ar rived in, say, New York, an Eastern operator simply takes it over and keeps it-paying that nominal rental fee dictated by the Association of American Railroads. The two lines currently hardest hit by this system are the Great Northern, which owns 22,800 boxcars but now has only about 48% of that number...