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...government bulletin the next day apparently explained what had happened to the inside men. A number of armed men dressed in civilian clothes, it said, had been caught inside the base. When asked to surrender, the group "unfortunately decided to resist arrest, resulting in six casualties." President Carlos Castillo Armas blamed the plot mostly on Arbencistas-diehard followers of pro-Communist ex-President Jacobo Arbenz, the victim of Castillo Armas' successful revolution last June...
...launch the attack and, after satisfying himself that it had failed, scampered to asylum in the Salvadoran embassy. Grudge holders of other stripes also took part: Communists, rightists, disgruntled officers. The most surprising suspect was Colonel El-fego Monzón, who as army chief negotiated the peace with Castillo Armas after Arbenz stepped down. Monzón at first served on a governing junta with Castillo Armas, then drifted into the background, his loyalties unclear. His involvement in last week's dustup consisted mainly of his friendship with several of the plotters. Not quite willing to jail...
...Guatemala (pop. 3,100,000) has been buffeted, since last summer's successful revolution, by one attempted army revolt and an assortment of serious economic woes. At one time, President Carlos Castillo Armas was reported ready to help Somoza topple the Costa Rican regime, but he apparently changed his mind...
...picture, one of the most fanciful and macabre of all of Rivera's heavy-handed propaganda paintings, shows a servile, rat-faced Castillo Armas shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Castillo Armas bows low; at his belt is an automatic pistol, and in his jacket pocket a thick packet of $10,000 bills. Secretary Dulles, in a battered felt hat and paratrooper's uniform, grips with one hand Rivera's idea of an H-bomb. On the bomb is a leering caricature of President Eisenhower. Whispering in the secretary...
Died. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, 68, Mexican career diplomat, onetime (1935-45) ambassador to the U.S., chairman of the U.N. Security Council in 1946, general in the Mexican Army, surgeon, poet and musician; after long illness; in Mexico City. As ambassador to the U.S., Najera worked to implement the Good Neighbor Policy, was instrumental in setting up the 1942 settlement of $40 million in U.S. claims against the Mexican government, including those for American-owned oil lands seized by Mexico...