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Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Efrain Kristal, who signed the original student proposal for a Chicano Studies visiting professorship, says he thinks students should avoid calls for an independent program...
...that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras has no independent foreign policy anymore. We have displaced people on our own territory, a permanent conflict with Nicaragua, and we are isolated internationally. I see an escalation of the war, and I do not know where it will stop...
...elections were only the first step on the road to civilian rule. General Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores, who took power from General Efrain Rios Montt in a coup last August, called the elections in March as part of his promise to return Guatemala to democracy. But he took pains to remind the competing politicians that their mandate was limited to writing a new constitution and preparing for presidential elections in July 1985. Ten days before the vote, Mejía appeared on national television, flanked by 27 armed-forces commanders, to declare that he would take "whatever means...
...downfall surprised no one except perhaps himself. Rumors of plots to oust him had circulated so often during the 16-month rule of Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt that observers lost count of the actual attempts. Had there been seven? Eight? Ten? Whatever the tally, last week's coup turned out to be for keeps. After a brief gun duel outside the National Palace in Guatemala City, the country's military leaders toppled Rios Montt and replaced him with Defense Minister Oscar Humberto Mejía Victores...
...actors, the props, even the scenario were familiar. Apparently sniffing out plans for at least the seventh coup since he seized power one year ago, Guatemala's President Efrain Ríos Montt last week declared an official "state of alarm" to muzzle his critics. Under the new orders, privately owned firearms are to be confiscated, political meetings are forbidden and nothing may be published or broadcast that might "disturb the peace of Guatemala." The government also reserved the right to search homes at will and to arrest anyone suspected of Marxist-Leninist activities. For the moment, at least...