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...remark echoed the confusion of many Guatemalans. Since he took over-at God's direction, as he put it-Ríos Montt has made far-reaching changes in the brutal and corrupt government that he inherited from his predecessor, General Fernando Romeo Lucas García. The country is now flooded with blue-and-white posters bearing a favorite Ríos Montt slogan, I DO NOT ROB, I DO NOT LIE, I DO NOT ABUSE. Under the President's moralizing eye, corruption has all but dried up. Government-sanctioned death squads that used to roam...
...colleagues, however, were disappointed by Reagan's choice of former Democratic Senator Richard Stone of Florida (see box). They feel Stone is too aligned with the current Administration, for which he has undertaken several diplomatic missions in Central America, and with the deposed right-wing dictatorship of Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala, for which he served as a paid lobbyist. The White House held up the appointment for a day while aides assessed Stone's chances for confirmation by the Senate. Many Democrats felt the issue was irrelevant. "Rather than an envoy, we should have a good policy," said...
...Some were troubled by his hard-line ideological views, the same views that endear him to his Administration supporters, National Security Adviser William Clark and U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. Stone's work in 1981 and 1982 as a paid lobbyist for the right-wing Guatemalan government of General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia, a regime with an abysmal record of human rights abuses, also disturbs some members of Congress; they fear that this connection will hurt his credibility with Salvadoran leftists. Reagan shrugged off such concerns, saying, "It just adds to the experience he's had down there." Despite...
...older daughter of Philippine President Ferdinand and First Lady Imelda Marcos, and Tomas Manotoc, 33, divorced amateur sportsman whom she married in Virginia 16 months ago: their first child, a son (he has two children by a previous marriage that under Philippine law is indissoluble); in Honolulu. Name: Fernando Martin. Weight: 6 Ibs. 8 oz. Her parents were bitterly opposed to the romance because of his marital status, and the couple had lived largely apart. But in March they went to Hawaii so that the baby could be born in the U.S.-and legitimate...
...massacre was a direct affront to the liberal government of Peru's President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Ever since Belaúnde's election in 1980, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a shadowy group of self-styled Maoist guerrillas, has tyrannized the area around the picturesque Andean town of Ayacucho, some 350 miles southeast of Lima. Under the pretext of defying capitalism and central authority, the insurgents have attacked isolated police stations and assassinated villagers suspected of informing against them. In January, Belaúnde sent a 3,500-man task force to Ayacucho to deter...