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Administration would not win and could not stop [and] prevented half a dozen other threats from developing into war-Trieste, Iran, Guatemala, Formosa, Suez, Lebanon, Quemoy, West Berlin." At the same time, the Administration has built up "gigantic" but "balanced" military strength around the world, while closing the missile gap that it inherited from the Democrats. "The Eisenhower Administration today is putting 40 times more into [long-range] missiles each month than the previous Administration did in eight years." The Economy. At home, the Administration has spread the benefits of eco nomic prosperity "not by Government orders, edicts or controls...
Rubottom's successor will be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Thomas C. Mann. He has served as embassy counselor in Guatemala and Ambassador to El Salvador. He is credited with drawing up the plan for U.S. participation in the international coffee agreement...
Closest behind Costa Rica is Guatemala, which has the most heavy Mayan population in Central America. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes has succeeded a pair of abbreviated administrations-the Communist-infiltrated regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954 by Carlos Castillo Armas with U.S. help, and Castillo Armas' corrupt regime, cut off by an assassin's bullet. With quiet humor and calculated eccentricity, President Ydigoras. 64, has made himself a popular figure. Refusing to live in the presidential palace, he has installed himself-along with a twittering aviary, a pet deer and a dwarf footman-in a remodeled museum...
...this market and to pool resources for overall development, the five nations agreed in 1951 to a progressive freeing of trade. Last year they standardized import duties on 5% of their imports, thereby built a Central America-wide protective tariff wall around these items. Early this year El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, each under heavy pressure at home to speed development, met to form a Central American "inner three." They agreed to shoot for a customs union in five years...
...exclude no neighbor from vilification, Castro's Foreign Minister Raúl Roa accused Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes of cooperating with the United Fruit Co. in planning a Guatemala-based, seaborne invasion of Cuba. Other Latin American leaders held their tempers. But Ydigoras issued his own May Day message to Cuba. He recalled his ambassador from Havana, and disgustedly severed diplomatic relations with Castro's government...