Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have always been a political mercenary!" cried Deputy Oscar Nájera Farfán to Deputy José Garcia Bauer in Guatemala's Constituent Assembly. "At least I am not the night chamber pot of politics!" retorted Garcia Bauer. "O piece of excrement, follow me out of this room!" thundered Nájera Farfán. In the tussle that followed, Nájera Farfán landed a solid right hook to Garcia Bauer's ear before other deputies pulled them apart...
...trial balloon" and pay half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim...
...Communist Hungary. Called The Road to Peace, it requires each player to move a Picasso dove around the board until it reaches a center spot marked "Peace." A throw of the dice that lands the player in a Red City (i.e., cities in the Soviet bloc, plus Tunis and Guatemala) earns him an extra turn. Green Cities (London, Paris, Caracas, etc.) carry a penalty of one turn. But woe betide the player who lights on a Black City, for he must promptly leave the game altogether. The one Black City on the board: Washington...
...labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved the world in recent years on top stories, e.g., early attempts to depose Peron in Argentina this year, Guatemala's anti-Communist uprising in 1954, and South Africa's explosive racial tension...
Paramount Consideration. In speeches before the Organization of American States in Washington and the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and through all his press conferences, ran the theme that Castillo Armas wanted to leave with the U.S. and the world. Guatemala, he said, was "the first country in history that overthrew a Communist dictatorship." As a result, "nowhere else in the world can the effects of Communism and of democracy on the ordinary person be compared so accurately as in Guatemala...