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Liberal & Likable. His successor appears to be both cooler in approach and warmer in personality. A native of northwest Italy's Piedmont region, Archbishop Raimondi, 54, studied at Rome's Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, entered the Vatican diplomatic service in 1938 as secretary of the papal nunciature in Guatemala. He is no stranger to the U.S., having spent seven years in Washington during the '40s as a secretary and auditor at the apostolic delegation. He also served as chargé d'affaires in India and nuncio to Haiti, and since 1956 has discharged his functions as apostolic...
...Denmark's krone (down 6.9%) the least. The purchasing power of the U.S. dollar sank 2.8% last year, but its performance during the 1956-66 decade was better: it eroded by an average of only 1.8% a year, the lowest rate among major industrial powers. In little Guatemala, sound management has kept the quetzal from depreciating in the past ten years. A sampling of inflation's global grip...
Index of Annual Rate of Value of Money Depreciation (1956=100) 1956- 1965-1966 1966 1966 Guatemala...
...Guatemala the situation has, by contrast, remained fairly quiet-though at least 250 Castroite terrorists still roam the country's interior. Their attacks are, however, a far cry from the kidnapings and bomb-throwings that nearly panicked the country last year. One reason: the guerrillas have lacked a leader since Luis Turcios Lima died at 24 in an auto accident last October. New President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has combined an army drive to hunt down guerrillas with a civic-action program that aims to lure peasants from the rebel cause by making life a little less unpleasant...
...Bulletin's pretensions to intellectual breadth are modest but persistent. There is a long-standing office joke about "The Frogs of Guatemala," a three-part article that ran in the Bulletin during the thirties. Bethell still tries to run at least one article in each issue that is "outward looking"--though probably not as far outward as the swamps of Guatemala...