Word: diederichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landslide victory over the Labor Party last February on a platform of "love power," he has used his office to persuade his countrymen to shed some of the unhappier legacies of British rule. "One of the greatest tragedies of the whole postcolonial period," he told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "is the tendency to come out of a dependent situation with a psychology of dependence." To help make the point, Manley has broken with the British shirt-and-tie tradition by wearing a kareba-a short-sleeved, open-neck jacket and matching pants outfit-in Parliament. He even wore...
...have been arrested in a land of only 5,000,000 people. Congressmen of the ruling M.L.N. (National Liberation Movement) Party are guarded by a force of 60 men, who tote submachine guns and grenades, and the legislature itself sometimes resembles an armed camp. When TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited the legislature in Guatemala City last week, he saw one gun-for-hire character who wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt and black trousers and carried a low-slung .45 automatic...
Mexico City Correspondent Bernard Diederich spoke with the wife of Guerrilla Maximiliano Gomez, who told him of a recent visit to Cuba to see her husband. Then she introduced him to a five-year-old -boy, the son of another guerrilla who had been shot by police. "The casual way she spoke of death," notes Diederich, "reflects just how fanatically committed to their cause these people...
Many Latin Americans suggested bitterly, however, that the government's uncompromising stand was influenced by the fact that Von Spreti was not North American. One previously exchanged revolutionary last week asked TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich in Mexico City: "Do you think the Guatemalan government would have dared to refuse the deal if it had been a Yankee ambassador...