Word: guatemala
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...grown pragmatic; it has learned that order and stability, even if relatively undemocratic, can be more important in emerging nations than a premature democracy that invites chaos. Thus the U.S. officially applauded (and some say instigated) the overthrow of a hopelessly inefficient and left-wing civilian regime in Guatemala, and cheered the downfall of a left-sliding, if popularly elected, government in Brazil...
...Diploma. Guatemala has been in a state of siege since February, when terrorists ambushed an army convoy, killing 15 soldiers. The guerrillas, some 300 strong, are led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a former army lieutenant who holds a diploma from the U.S. Army counterinsurgency school in Panama. There have also been reports of smaller-scale guerrilla activity in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Honduras...
...Once a narrowly based, family-owned business, Miles has transformed itself into an expansion-bent producer of more than 200 medical and pharmaceutical items, with 18 plants in the U.S. and abroad, sales in 101 countries. Last year it started new drug and chemical plants in France, Venezuela and Guatemala, bought up three new companies. Last week Miles announced that it will double the size (cost: $6,000,000) of its Elkhart citric-acid plant, whose production has already made Miles Laboratories the second U.S. producer of citric acid (after Pfizer), with sales to the companies that make everything from...
...keep their minds alert one girl wrote a Fine Arts 12 paper; one boy wrote to Chicago asking a friend to spend the summer in Guatemala; another boy listened to Louie Armstrong on WHRB; and a pretty blond girl whispered "This is very serious ... Vietnam ..." to her date and giggled...
...Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Guatemala...