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Guatemalans have historically been prey to political extremes, ranging from a long line of rightist dictators to the Communists' most successful infiltration of a Western Hemisphere republic. When Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas kicked the Reds out in 1954, he began building a new middle lane in the political road. Last week, half a year after the colonel's assassination by a crackpot guard, his moderate ideas went down to defeat, jabbed by the left and steamrollered by the right in an election which all sides agreed was the freest in the country's history...
...Congress. None of the three major presidential candidates got a clear majority. This left it to Congress, still controlled by Castillo Armas' M.D.N. party, to choose between the two front runners. Unofficial returns gave Rightist General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes 177,198 votes, M.D.N, Candidate Colonel Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, former Ambassador to Washington, 132,087, and the leftist Revolutionary Party candidate, Mario Mendez Montenegro...
GENERAL MIGUEL YDIGORAS FUENTES, 62, representative of the far right who riotously upset a try by followers of assassinated President Carlos Castillo Armas to put over a feeble successor in a quick and easy election last October. Although Ydi-goras' protesting street mobs reflected every hue in the political spectrum, his support comes from big plantation owners, industrialists and conservative Roman Catholics...
COLONEL JOSE Luis CRUZ SALAZAR, 37, heir of Castillo Armas' middle-of-the-road Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.). A career army officer sent to Washington as Castillo Armas' ambassador, he is firmly in the U.S. camp. He has the support of the younger officers who carry most weight in the army, a strong point in his favor in case of opposition attempts to short-circuit a Cruz Salazar victory either before or after the fact. His slogan: "Neither left nor right...
GUATEMALA, Jan. 19--Guatamalans tried again today to elect a successor to President Carlos Castillo Armas, assassinated last July by one of his guards. An election three months ago was nullified after bloody rioting...