Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upland city of Manizales, coffee capital of Colombia, new-car sales are booming, and supermarkets stock imported pâté de foie gras. In the Mexican highlands, dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
...tiny backyard jardins, drying the beans on the ground in front of their thatch-roofed mud houses and selling to journeyman brokers. Now that el Exigente will buy anything he can find, they are getting as much as $1.25 per Ib.-unheard-of riches for these people. In Guatemala, Indian laborers who usually are taken from their mountain homes to coffee plantations in open trucks designed to carry cattle have taken advantage of a labor shortage to demand, and get, bus transportation...
...Last year, serious earthquakes struck Guatemala, killing 22,000; the area surrounding Tientsin in China, with a toll of perhaps 665,000; Mindanao, 8,000; Turkey. 5,000: and northern Italy...
...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...quake measuring 7.5 struck Guatemala in February, leaving 19,000 dead; the heavily populated Tientsin area of China was ravaged by an 8.2 quake in July, with an unknown death toll also estimated in thousands...