Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stormy old name out of Central America's turbulent past was stirring new winds last week. From Venezuela, where he lives in exile teaching "History of Philosophy and Culture," Juan José Arévalo, 57, the anti-Yankee President of Guatemala from 1945 to 1951, announced that he will return home next month to start building for the 1963 presidential elections. As he prepared his comeback, one of his old U.S.-baiting books-The Shark and the Sardines, published in 1956 -was raising hackles in the U.S. in a new printing hotly promoted by Castroites...
...valo, who now sings a less strident line and says he will not even take royalties from Castro. But his book was no momentary aberration. A self-styled "spiritual Socialist," he blamed his country's ills on the United Fruit Co., which had immense holdings in Guatemala, accused the U.S. Government of backing the company's "exploitations," once expelled a U.S. ambassador who offended him. In office, though a devious administrator, he gave his country some freedoms it had not known under a previous long line of dictators. The one party he refused to legalize was the Communist...
...minimize criticism, Arévalo protests, "I am a Christian and an idealistic anti-Marxist." He insists that "I am not anti-American. I oppose the American Government when it turns into a protector of American corporations." He still fumes that the United Fruit Co. runs Guatemala, but promises that "we plan to maintain free enterprise in agriculture, industry, culture and commerce...
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...years with tough old Myron Kinley, dean emeritus of oil fire fighters, set up his own company four years ago when Kinley retired. Already this year, the burly Adair and his two apprentices, Asgar ("Boots") Hansen and Edward ("Coots'") Matthews, have tamed 50 wells in Bahrein, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses for a single...