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...grand innovation" of a U.N. as a global executive has failed "because it defied history and falsely assumed the existence of a community of the great powers." In the Security Council, the veto reflects the realities of power politics; in the General Assembly, anarchy rules. "A body in which Guatemala or Bulgaria exercises the same voting power as the United States or the Soviet Union can scarcely be expected to serve as a reliable instrument of peace enforcement or even of consultation...
...Guatemala, where philandering approaches the status of a national sport, the present chief of state, President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 65, is a defiant monogamist of 38 years' standing. Last week, after long tolerating the irailties of his colleagues, the marital maverick finally shot off a thunderbolt to the Ministry of Interior. "Public rumors supported by evidence," he wrote, "show that many functionaries and government officials not only have mistresses but are seen in public with them, displaying disrespect toward their homes.'' The snapper to President Ydígoras' attempt to achieve fidelity by fiat...
...Aviation Agency official. "A Pan Am out of Mexico City. We'll call you back as soon as we have the details.'' Five calls to the President on that day last week fleshed out the details: four minutes out of Mexi co City, while southbound for Guatemala City with 81 aboard, a four-jet Pan American World Airways DC-8 had been "skyjacked" by a lone gunman and ordered to turn course for Cuba...
...Latin America's conservatives that the time has come for real social and eco nomic reform. Open opposition to the aims of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress is scarce, but wealthy landowners in many Latin countries assume that talk of reform must apply to someone else. In Guatemala, opposition by coffee growers and businessmen has managed to kill Conservative President Manuel Ydigoras Fuentes' attempts to initiate a much-needed income tax. In El Salvador, where the contrast between the barefoot poor and the well-manored rich is extreme, the influential El Diario de Hoy editorialized: "The last...
Watching the disturbing show, the governments of Venezuela and Colombia spoke out in alarm against the advance of Communism, and Guatemala urged the OAS to take action. Mexico's President Adolfo López Mateos quietly ordered left-wing ex-President Lazaro Cardenas to refuse an invitation to the celebrations in Havana, and approved a speech by right-wing ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez, who said: "We must never permit ourselves to be dominated by outside powers or seduced by Utopian doctrines. Unfortunately, this has already occurred in the hemisphere of liberty...