Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala...
Like the Dominican Republic's Balaguer, Méndez faces some heavy historical adds. Since Guatemala's inde pendence in 1847, only one civilian President, Leftist Juan Jose Arévalo (1945-51), has completed his term. Besides an itchy military, Guatemala is also plagued by a stagnant economy and mounting extremist agitation from both right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side...
...almost the same hour of the morning that the Dominican Republic inaugurated its new President last week, tiny, tumultuous Guatemala swore in a new top man of its own. Installed as its 21st President Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, a left-of-center former law professor who succeeds the 39-month-old military regime of General Enrique Peralta Azurdia...
...UNDECLARED WAR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A news special citing 79 instances of "overt hostilities"-meaning shots, soldiers and casualties-since World War II, with special emphasis on guerrilla skirmishes in Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, and the Panama Canal Zone riots...
...ending Communist terrorism. "Progress for all Guatemalans," he said simply, "is the answer to violent revolution." Just to give progress a hand, however, Peralta extracted a promise from Méndez that the military would have a free rein in hunting down the 500-odd guerrillas operating in Guatemala's hills and jungles...