Word: castillos
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...rifle up to present arms. Then Soldier Vásquez Sánchez stepped back, flipped off one set of hall lights, and raised his 7-mm. Mauser to his shoulder. As the President half-turned, Vásquez Sánchez shot him through the heart. Doughty Castillo Armas, 42, who overthrew the only Communist-dominated government that the Western Hemisphere ever had, died at once...
...President left prosperity and surface stability, but no sound political philosophy, organization or heir apparent. In the three years since his rag-tag army and Nicaragua-based air force (six F-47s) forced out the Red-led regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Castillo was the country's undisputed ruler-shy and diffident in manner, often indecisive as an administrator, but capable on occasion of moving with stern severity...
...Castillo steered the country sternly back from left to center, the U.S. sent $50 million to start a highway and building boom that has kept Guatemala prosperous. But graft, always present, kept pace with prosperity. The President alone dispensed $1,000,000 a year through the old and perfectly legal custom of confidenciales-a confidential fund that he could spend as he saw fit. With paternal pride, Castillo launched ambitious health-and-education programs, plastering the country with signs urging peasants to "Wash Your Hands Before Eating." To replace Arbenz' helter-skelter expropriation of rich plantations, he started...
...Comeback. Immediately after Castillo Armas' assassination, the government announced that the guard who shot him down was a Communist. Since that would indicate an unpardonable and unexplainable lapse in the government's security measures, the announcement seemed rather to be a hyperbolic way of expressing the fear that Arbenz (now plotting in Uruguay) and his exiled henchmen might try to regain power in the confusion. It seemed more likely that the assassin was a fanatic from the same mold as the assassin who last September killed Nicaragua's Dictator Anastasio Somoza. But Castillo's friends moved...
...were erected and a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew declared. But Guatemala-for the time, at least -remained calm. At the National Palace, where the dead President lay in state, military-academy cadets stood guard while a three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine." Ike announced that Major John Eisenhower will represent him at the funeral...