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...Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations...
...GENERAL Efrain Rios Montt, catapulted to power last spring through a coup, is a born-again Christian. The rightist leader worked as an evangelist before assuming his current duties and was affiliated with the Church of the Word, which has links to the Gospel Outreach group in Eureka, California...
...time addressing might hold the key to averting economic disaster. While Latin America has been newsworthy of late for the turmoil of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the President will visit none of those countries, though he will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned by the Nicaraguan arms buildup, are diverting more and more...
Political leaders of all persuasions attribute successes-and, occasionally, failures-to the Almighty. But few do so with more fervor and sincerity than Guatemala's Brigadier General Jose Efrain Rios Montt, 55, a born-again member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word. Montt took it as God's call in March that he leave the church school where he was academic director (TIME, April 5) and join the three-man junta that had been picked to run the country by the junior officers who ousted General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia. In an equally swift maneuver...
...brought two elders of his church into the government: Bianci as public relations director and Alvaro Contreras as his private secretary. He frequently seeks the counsel of other elders. Adds James DeGolyer, an elder who has come from the U.S. to help the Guatemalan congregation: "We pray for Efrain and the brothers. Thousands of people are praying for them in the U.S. too. We have 24-hour prayer chains in the church for them. We believe that prayer coverage is very important...