Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousand-year-old Mayan artifact will be returned to Guatemala next week thanks to the efforts of Harvard archaeologist Ian Graham...
Graham, the Director of the Maya Corpus Program at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, first learned of the missing artifact in 1971 while excavating El Peru, an archaeological site in northern Guatemala...
After speaking with attorneys representing Guatemala, the art collector, whose identity is being withheld, agreed to return the ornament. It will be returned to Guatemala next week and will likely be displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Guatemala City. Eventually, it could be displayed with the monument, according to Howard N. Spiegler, an attorney with the firm representing Guatemala...
...John Kennedy Jr. never took a simple path to public service. Not at 15, when he and his cousin Timothy Shriver trekked to Guatemala to help earthquake survivors rebuild. Not in his 20s, when he helped devise a program to improve treatment for the disabled that started in gritty New York City neighborhoods and is now being copied overseas. And not when a charity he worked with wanted to know how kids in a drug-prevention program were faring, and Kennedy went to talk with some himself...
...charitably, has a spotty record on overthrowing foreign governments. The times it has succeeded--in Guatemala, Iran and Chile, for example--it replaced fairly moderate governments with far more brutal regimes. And when dictators deserved the boot, the agency has been rather inept at toppling them. The CIA has been trying to oust Saddam Hussein ever since the Gulf War ended eight years ago, but he is more firmly entrenched than ever...