Word: guatemala
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...plot" has just been discovered. At least three members of the U.S. embassy staff in Syria were said to be involved. "At the helm of the conspiracy," said the Damascus radio, was Second Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus between two young Syrian officers and two Syrian "reactionaries" and promised them $300 million to "stage a coup and make peace with Israel...
Beard in Hand. On the strength of this yarn, reinforced by the charge that one of the reactionaries "carried a false beard in his hand," the Syrian government next day expelled Stone, 32, onetime Library of Congress employee who has never even been in Guatemala in his life. Also expelled: a U.S. vice consul, and-though nobody had even mentioned his name before-the U.S. military attache...
...Castillo steered the country sternly back from left to center, the U.S. sent $50 million to start a highway and building boom that has kept Guatemala prosperous. But graft, always present, kept pace with prosperity. The President alone dispensed $1,000,000 a year through the old and perfectly legal custom of confidenciales-a confidential fund that he could spend as he saw fit. With paternal pride, Castillo launched ambitious health-and-education programs, plastering the country with signs urging peasants to "Wash Your Hands Before Eating." To replace Arbenz' helter-skelter expropriation of rich plantations, he started...
Reserves were called up, army troops swarmed the city, road blocks were erected and a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew declared. But Guatemala-for the time, at least -remained calm. At the National Palace, where the dead President lay in state, military-academy cadets stood guard while a three-block line of mourners filed past. President Eisenhower, who received Castillo Armas in the hospital in Denver and renewed the acquaintance while visiting Panama, called the death "a great loss to his own nation and to the entire free world. President Castillo Armas was a personal friend of mine...
Died. Carlos Castillo Armas, 42, President of Guatemala since 1954; by an assassin's bullet; in Guatemala City (see THE HEMISPHERE...