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This is why liberal skeptics are alleging this new example of U.S. intervention in mother country's affairs. President Reagan and his advisors are convinced that the Soviet Union and Cuba are gaining influence in Central America. In Guatemala, leftist guerillas have recently become a force to reckon with. As of last year, they were operating in 19 of the country's 22 regions, sabotaging public works and generally making life miserable for the army. But Washington couldn't resume aid to Gunmetal because of the prevailing climate of repression: Congress, already divided over arms sales to El Salvador, would...
...once in power, the Rios Montt junta was quick to praise Washington and the CACIF. Members of the CACIF were appointed as minister of the economy and minister of agriculture. And Rios Montt told the press that Washington had expressed its "enthusiasm and sympathy" for Guatemala's new government. A few days later, the Administration announced its official recognition of Rios Montt...
Predictably, the future for Guatemala would seem to be more of the same--strict military rule. Unlike most coups, Rios Montt's takeover does not represent a significant shift from one end of the political spectrum to the other. Rather, the events of March 23 demonstrate an inter-factional fight that will have little effect on the well-being of the Guatemalan people...
Belize. This newly independent nation of 150,000 is claimed by Guatemala in a 150-year-old dispute with Britain. Belize is protected from the threat of invasion by the presence of 1,800 British troops...
DIED. W. Cameron Townsend, 85, pioneering Protestant missionary who brought the Bible to primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian...