Word: guatemala
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...India, Pakistan and Bangladesh cleared Himalayan foothills to make more room for crops. Without the forests, which act as great sponges that sop up and hold rainfall, the water rapidly ran off the slopes. The accelerated runoff caused disastrous floods over the past year. In cleared jungles in Mexico, Guatemala and Brazil, heavy rains quickly leached the nutrients from the thin layer of topsoil, rendering the land infertile within a year or two. (The trees had both anchored and nourished the soil.) In other cleared jungles, the sun burned out the soil's valuable organic content...
...book outlines CIA activities over the last 25 years. It describes in detail covert CIA operations in Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, and more recently its activities in Chile...
...Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...player who was absent and won't be back is junior halfback Burrelle Duvauchelle. He was tenth in the nation last year in kick-off returns. Duvauchelle is taking the year off so he can pick bananas in Guatemala. He should be back for the 1975 season...
...with an advertising campaign in legal trade journals. Because the company does not deal directly with the public, professional codes against a lawyer's advertising his services do not apply. Morrison even dreams of opening branches overseas; he already has a few clients on Guam, in Canada and Guatemala...