Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many parts of the world that diplomats and businessmen are beginning to take some novel defensive measures. Last week in Washington, the first four U.S. Government employees (nobody will say what agency they work for) "graduated" from the private Academy of Defensive Driving, joining previous trainees from Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico and the Philippines. In a week of schooling they were taught a number of evasive tactics that had been developed, in racier days, by whisky runners and bank heisters. The curriculum consisted of running a roadblock and executing a "bootleg turn," an intricate maneuver of locking on the emergency brake...
...ceremonial center inhabited largely by priests and their retainers. Now, new discoveries suggest that between A.D. 400 and 700, Teotihuacan was literally the Big Apple of Mesoamerica, the focus of a far-flung empire that stretched from the arid plains of central Mexico to the mountains of Guatemala...
...used neither metal, the wheel nor draft animals. How they kept records remains a mystery; researchers have thus far found no conclusive evidence that they had a written language. But there is ample evidence that the ancient city enjoyed considerable prestige. A political and religious center dug up near Guatemala City shows what Pennsylvania State University Archaeologist William Sanders considers "a slavish imitation of Teotihuacan style." Artifacts unearthed in Belize, 700 miles away, show a similar influence...
Hunt and Sturgis were quite capable of coordinating and executing a domestic assassination. Hunt, who denounces Kennedy's betrayal in his book on the invasion Give Us This Day, had led the successful overthrow of the left-wing president of Guatemala in 1954 and had planned several unsuccessful attempts on Castro's life. Sturgis was such a successful spy that he had infiltrated the July 26 Movement before Castro came to power, eventually becoming Air Force Chief of Security and later Minister of Games of Chance before Castro closed the casinos and Sturgis fled in 1960. In an interview with...
...Sudan Guatemala, Greece, Bolivia, Chana, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile... all these countries are now ruled by dictatorships imposed through CIA-supported coups. It makes one wonder who to blame...