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Twenty-five years ago Americans were "unconscious, relatively speaking, of the devastation that went on in Korea. Two million civilians were killed, every city was wasted," he says. Nor did Americans know that during the '50s the Central Intelligence Agency was operating covertly in Guatemala. And after the 1954 battle of Diembienphu, they failed to realize the significance of then vice president Richard M. Nixon's speech warning the country to be prepared to send troops to Indochina, Ellsberg says...
...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...