Word: chimaltenango
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...army first launched its new style of campaign in the Guatemalan departments of Chimaltenango, Sololá and Quezaltenango, major tourist and agricultural areas west of the capital. After resisting briefly, most of the guerrillas quickly moved elsewhere. Now the army is massing its forces in the northwest department of El Quiché, a mountainous jungle area that is considered to be one of the guerrillas' major strongholds. The rugged terrain favors the insurgents, who are surprisingly well equipped. At one fortification discovered in the earlier sweep, the soldiers found networks of tunnels and supplies of M16 rifles...
Guatemala's towns will eventually come back to life, but hundreds of thousands of survivors will be forever scarred by memories of the terror. At the U.S. military hospital set up near Chimaltenango, TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich vainly tried to comfort a weeping Indian girl; she cried not from the pain of a broken leg but because no one could tell her what had happened to her family. Hundreds of corpses were hastily buried in mass graves; some names were recorded but other bodies were interred with the briefest of notations, such as: "Found in Guatemala City Zone...
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