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Ironically, one problem Reagan probably won't spend too much time addressing might hold the key to averting economic disaster. While Latin America has been newsworthy of late for the turmoil of El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, the President will visit none of those countries, though he will meet briefly with Salvadoran President Alvaro Magana and Guatemalan leader Gen. Efrain Rios Montt in Honduras. The U.S. is spending several hundred million dollars a year in military assistance to prop up governments in El Salvador and Guatemala and to topple the Sand inista regime in Nicaragua. Costa Rica and Honduras, concerned...
...Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador. The bishops demanded that the Administration cut off military aid to El Salvador, arguing that it only escalated the violence, much of which has been engendered by the Government. Two weeks ago Archbishop Roach called for an end to U.S. military involvement in Guatemala because of that nation's human rights atrocities. Nonetheless, the gap between the bishops and the White House on policy in Central America has narrowed slightly. The Administration has seemingly
...joining forces on the side of the volcano just above the town, followed minutes later by the collapse of a temporary road-construction dam. The disaster, El Salvador's worst since a 1965 earthquake, followed four days of heavy rains that have devastated El Salvador and parts of Guatemala killing some 1,000 people. As much as 40% of El Salvador's basic food crops has been destroyed, and damage is estimated at $250 million...
...door on the Aztec past was opened quite accidentally before dawn on Feb. 21, 1978. While workers for the Mexico City Light and Power Co. were digging a hole heart the intersection of Argentina and Guatemala streets, they discovered an oval stone eleven feet in diameter, covered with carvings. Archaeologists quickly identified the relief as a representation of an important Aztec myth. The central image on the stone was the dismembered torso of Huitzilopochtli's evil sister, Coyolxauhqui. According to legend, she had plotted with her many brothers to kill their mother just as she was about to give...
...circulating on the dinner-party circuit in Mexico City. There is little likelihood of such a thing: the Mexican military has stayed removed from civilian affairs for half a century. The army is far more disturbed about the insurrectional possibilities along Mexico's southern border with strife-torn Guatemala, where guerrillas are believed to be taking refuge...