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Gerassi will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall, along with Blase Bonpane, the Maryknoll priest who was deported from Guatemala for aiding the guerrillas there...
Once in 100 Years. On one matter, the delegates were able to show commendable unity: the election of Guatemala's Foreign Minister, Emilio Arenales, as president, an honor he prized highly, since "Guatemala can expect to preside only about once in 100 years." But the beginning of this century's term was hardly encouraging. In the Secretary General's annual report, U Thant surveyed the unhappy world and, conceding the U.N.'s ineffectiveness, could only suggest an old-fashioned summit meeting of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France. That suggestion is not likely to be taken...
...Ambassador John Gordon Mein had just left his residence in the suburbs of Guatemala City after a luncheon honoring a visiting State Department specialist in Central American affairs. He was alone in the rear seat of his chauffeured Cadillac as the big sedan moved north along Avenida la Reforma. A small green Toyota suddenly pulled in front and forced Mein's car to the curb. A red Buick darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine...
...startled. Since civilian rule supplanted a rigid military regime in 1966, Communist and right-wing terrorists have killed some 2,000 people in their running crossfire-among them two U.S. military advisers, Army Colonel John Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate reform program won endorsement in countrywide municipal elections...
...presidential aspirants, but the man still in office has not forgotten it. Last week, as reassurance to the U.S.'s southern neighbors, President Johnson flew to San Salvador for a minisummit with the presidents of five Central American republics: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Before leaving Texas, he conferred with Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve...