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...Schlesinger tells it, Bitter Fruit resulted from his interest in the CIA. In 1976, the Agency was being thoroughly investigated by Congress. Schlesinger, a little restless at Time, undertook some research of his own and became intrigued by the constant references to the 1954 coup in Guatemala. "There would be a single sentence in almost every article I read on the CIA about the coup with no further explanation," he says. "So I decided to send away to the government to see what they...
...resumption of aid appears to be fairly strong. Representative Michael D. Barnes (D.-Md.), chairman of a House committee on inter-American affairs, said an "informal agreement" exists with the Administration that would permit Congress to exercise "what amounts to a veto" on any change in U.S. policy toward Guatemala...
Last March, Guatemala held elections that were widely believed to be fraudulent, Gen. Anibal Guevara, Minister of Defense under Lucas Garcia, was chosen to lead the country. Rios Montt's coup a week later prevented Guevara from assuming power this summer...
Little is known about Rios Montt. Allied with the Social Democrats, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1974. Optimistic officials in Washington say Rios Montt is moderate by Guatemalan standards. But as former Assistant Secretary of State for Central America Sally Shelton puts it, "the political spectrum in Guatemala starts very much to the right of center." And Rios Montt, a general himself, has the backing of the historically repressive military...
...Guatemalan junta has announced plans to dismantle the death squads and bring to trial former government officials. But policy to shore up Guatemala's troubled economy has been made public. New elections, promised by Rios Montt, have yet to be set Clearly it is too early to predict in which direction Rios Montt will go. It should be at least as clear to Washington that to change policy so dramatically to ward a regime which is only a month old is folly...