Word: guatemala
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...Sudan Guatemala, Greece, Bolivia, Chana, Indonesia, Iran, Syria, Ecuador, Uruguay, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Chile... all these countries are now ruled by dictatorships imposed through CIA-supported coups. It makes one wonder who to blame...
...what is otherwise the increasingly arid scene of Harvard Square. Large numbers of students and other passersby seem to enjoy it, too, and to take advantage of the opportunities it offers to buy hand-made things, bargain books, records and exotic things that backpackers have just brought in from Guatemala, Peru, Nepal and Ethiopia...
...Last year, after processing nearly 14,000 export-license applications from private firms, Washington's Office of Munitions Control approved sales to 136 countries totaling $8.3 billion. (Actual deliveries, of course, lag considerably behind sales.) This represents 46% of total world sales. Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to Italy and South Korea, armored personnel carriers to Jordan and Norway, heavy-duty CH-47 (Chinook) helicopters to Iran, Spain and South Viet Nam, destroyers to Chile, counterinsurgency equipment to the Philippines...
...particles, in turn, tend to scatter the blue (or shorter) wave lengths of the spectrum more than the red, thereby causing the sky to redden at sunset or sunrise. McCormick and Fuller say that the probable source of the new dust is the frequently erupting Volcan de Fuego in Guatemala...
...crucial abstentions were those of Haiti and Guatemala, both of which had been counted on by the sponsors of the conference to support the lifting of sanctions. Haiti was widely accused of having abstained because neither side was willing to promise financial aid in return for its vote. If the U.S. had hinted that it would have liked to see the sanctions lifted, Guatemala's right-wing government might well have gone along, but with no such clue it abstained...