Word: guatemala
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...that he will take a short drive out of his way to check on the number of Russian troops in Szekes-fehervar. Or they may be arranging a revolution-as they did when Premier Mossadegh was deposed in 1953, or when Colonel Jacobo Arbenz was over thrown in Guatemala...
...There is a pride in being a "professional and not just a dabbler"--a professional because of the sacrifices one must make to become a member. And, as in any club, there are fringe travel benefits which go along with membership. The Communist is received in style in Cuba, Guatemala (in the hills), France, Italy, Russia, and China, to mention a few. Furthermore, there are those pretty girls and after Party parties...
...garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while she was back in Guatemala-and he was improving his Spanish-and then were married...
...movement, people want to gain independence, but they need help from larger society. At some point revolutionary movements may have to compromise their radicalism in order to succeed. Still they must hold off compromise as long as possible to attain independence in the end. Peter Weiner's article called "Guatemala: the Aborted Revolution" is distressing because it places most of the blame for the failure of that revolution on the United States. If American aid is so important for the success of a Guatemalan revolution, then these people will not become independent. Aid means future obligations...
...Episcopal General Convention three years later, and has since been accepted practice in the church. Hines said that the Episcopal Church is sponsoring more than 15 experimental birth control clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Six of them are in nominally Catholic countries: Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and the Philippines...