Word: guatemala
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...Guatemala City when Genaro Castro was jolted awake by the thunderously loud rumble of buckling earth and masonry. Grabbing his terrified and screaming child, he stumbled over the shifting floor of his adobe house to the door. A pressure beyond his frantic strength held it shut. While he was still grappling with the door, the front wall of his home crashed outward into the street, leaving Castro and his son standing exposed but unharmed. They had just survived one of the century's most destructive natural disasters...
...proceeds will be given to CARE, Palay said, because it "is the most respected organization in Guatemala. They have been there since 1958 and mobilized immediately after the disaster...
...Mundo, the Spanish Daily newspaper in Cambridge, created the Guatemala Relief Fund. A spokesman for El Mundo said yesterday that the fund has been "very successful," filling four warehouses with food and medicine within the last week, and added that he is "very happy" with the support received from both the Spanish and English speaking communities in Cambridge...
...newspaper is presently looking for planes to fly the goods collected to Guatemala and is receiving assistance from both Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) and Representative Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass), House Majority Leader, in its search for transport, the spokesman said...
...need is immediate," Palay warned," Guatemala is in ruin...