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...under way. Union Oil Co. of California is about ready to start test drilling in Western Panama. Nicaragua has let concessions along its coasts. In Honduras, Texas oilmen are sinking test wells near the Nicaraguan border. Signal Oil & Gas Co. recently obtained a 670,000-acre concession in Guatemala, and a score of other U.S. firms have put in applications. The search for more oil is also going on elsewhere. Gulf Oil Corp. is planning to spend more than $1,000,000 this year on exploration in Bolivia: four U.S. oil companies are sponsoring a two-year geological mapping...
Torn from his family and accused of plotting against the government, Juan Cordova Cerna was kicked across the jungled border from Guatemala into Honduras three years ago. Anti-Communist Juan Cordova was a wealthy, well-born lawyer (at one time retained by the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co.) and a bitter enemy of the pro-Communist government that then ruled Guatemala. Last week Lawyer Cordova was again escorted over the border into Honduras. This time the ousting came from the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas, whose 1954 anti-Communist invasion-revolution Cordova had aided mightily...
...strong-arm handling of Juan Cordova was a measure of the disillusionment Castillo Armas has given his admirers of two years ago. Far from the hoped-for new era of democracy, Guatemala is slipping fast toward a dictatorship that gives reason for opposition from all quarters, then crushes its opponents under the slogan of antiCommunism...
...reason for such determination was clearly shown on the first day. Before the medal-giving at the palace, Ike dropped in at the hotel, spent quiet half-hours with Mexico's Ruiz Cortines and Guatemala's Carlos Castillo Armas. After the conference was over, Ike planned to stay an extra day to talk with the other Presidents. For Ike, and for most of the other chiefs of state, those intimate talks were the heart of the meeting...
Firm acceptances were in from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and most important, the U.S. Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...