Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roving ambassador had landed at Rabat, Morocco's capital, a day earlier, and at once plunged into the person-to-person, handshake-and-smile campaign with which-on five previous overseas missions-he had won new friends for the U.S. from Manila to Guatemala. And already the trip was showing a policy profit. In private talks with Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco, during which the two leaders discussed the future of U.S. bases in the country, U.S. economic aid, etc., Nixon got the Sultan's approval for the Eisenhower Doctrine, in turn assured Mohammed that the U.S. would...
...Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, a U.S. independent firm has had as many as 200 men at work, and planned to bring in an offshore drilling barge. Houston's John W. Mecom and three associates were drilling a pair of exploratory wells in Honduras. In Guatemala, where 29 U.S. companies bid for exploration rights after the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas passed what oilmen called a "tough but workable" law, the process of sorting out overlapping concessions was going on, but no drilling had yet begun...
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...concerned over Communist arms moving through the Dardanelles and landing in Syrian ports, but has reason to know that some Syrian military and political higher-ups are also disturbed at Communist influence and the dangerous ambitions of Colonel Serraj. In both Washington and Paris last week, the word Guatemala popped up in speculations about Syria-meaning that a more pro-Western government might be encouraged to seize power...
...nose for news was indistinguishable from his lust for danger. As a World War II soldier, he parachuted into occupied France, landed in the Normandy invasion, was badly wounded at Bastogne (for which he won the Silver Star). As a civilian, he kept going to war. In Guatemala during the anti-Communist revolution, he climbed over street barricades carrying not only a camera but a .45 Colt. During Tunisian riots, he calmly snapped pictures in the middle of a pillaging mob looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China, snipers' bullets ripped his uniform without touching him. In Algeria...