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GUATEMALA Crime & Punishment In the patio of Guatemala's Central Penitentiary last week, a firing squad carried out the first legal executions since Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas overthrew the Red-ridden government of Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954. The executed men: two former policemen who took part in the murder of ten anti-Communists during the last bloody days of the collapsing Arbenz regime...
Decked with flags and resounding with fireworks, Guatemala City observed a festive anniversary this week. One year ago Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, the exiled officer who organized a shoestring revolution and ousted the Red-run government of Guatemala, returned in triumph to his nation's capital, later announced that his regime would go "neither right nor left, but straight...
Freshman Politician Castillo Armas has done his zigzagging best to keep the promise. After briefly outlawing labor unions, Castillo Armas re-established them, purged of their Communist leaders but with strikes out of the question for the present. He abolished the previous regime's famed land-reform decree, but he chased few peasants off their holdings, and is writing a new reform based on full ownership of land instead of government leases...
...axiom of Central American politics that no regime stays popular very long. Professional people and university students are restless over Castillo Armas' continuing government-by-decree, dismayed by his government's apparent lack of political and technical know-how. The President himself complains that most of his economic advisers are "no-idea men." And until he can launch a program to encourage business and raise living standards, the threat of a "prolabor" Communist comeback will not disappear...
...Charles W. Mayo picked him to receive $10,000, tax free, and a gold medal awarded by the Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. New York Republican Steven Derounian offered a bill in the House to give "this doctor and humanitarian" a special Congressional Medal. Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas bestowed on Salk the country's highest honor, the Order., of the Quetzal. Norwegian schoolchildren collected money for a painting to give him, and three Hollywood movie companies said they wanted to film his life story. Back to the Lab. In their own way, politicos paid tribute...