Word: guatemala
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...Near Guatemala's Pacific coast, 35 miles from the Mexican border, lies a new solidly paved, closely guarded airstrip. So out of place did the strip seem amid the sparsely settled cattle ranches and banana plantations that Guatemalans have been whispering about it for months. Could it be the base for a cooperative U.S.-Guatemalan-Cuban-exile airborne military operation against Fidel Castro? Fortnight ago, poking around the country. Los Angeles Mirror Aviation Editor Don Dwiggins heard about the strip and broke a story reporting that it had been built with U.S. funds in a mysterious "crash" program...
...were at the new strip, along with one C-54 four-engined transport and four C46 twin-engined Curtiss Commandos. The strip will accommodate these ships, but to say that it will handle jets was an overstatement: it is only 6,000 ft. long, marginal for jets in Guatemala's hot weather...
...ambition and pleasure is to be on the spot when the news happens. Sometimes he finds himself in a tighter spot than some of the participants in the events he is reporting, and this duty becomes less pleasurable. In the past fortnight, two TIMEmen, Africa Correspondent Lee Griggs and Guatemala Stringer Robert Rosenhouse, found themselves too close to the news for comfort...
...Guatemala, Correspondent Rosenhouse toured the front, where troops rebelling against President Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes were battling the regular army. He found no sign of direct Castro support to the rebels as Ydígoras claimed. When he tried to dispatch his story, Ydígoras' police tossed Rosenhouse into solitary for five hours in a windowless adobe cell. After the U.S. consul pleaded Rosenhouse's case, Ydígoras finally hauled the correspondent onto the carpet for a bit of bland but pointed advice: follow the government line-or else. The advice came a little late...
...Guatemala and Nicaragua. Still binding up the wounds of last fortnight's open rebellion, while the U.S. Navy patrols the Caribbean to make sure that Cuba does not seize the opportunity to invade...