Word: guatemala
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...labor convention may make it sing." Because of his own talent for going in cold to tackle a top story, Ed Lahey, who calls himself a "paid free lancer," has roved the world in recent years on top stories, e.g., early attempts to depose Peron in Argentina this year, Guatemala's anti-Communist uprising in 1954, and South Africa's explosive racial tension...
...hurried up to greet the Castillo Armases like the friends they have been since the Nixons' Caribbean tour last February. "Again!" shouted the photographers over and over. "It's an old American custom," Nixon explained. "I know," replied Castillo Armas. "They do the same thing in Guatemala...
...guard, the visitors rode to the President's Guest House, where they were quartered while in Washington. On Constitution Avenue, banners flapped gaily− except for the half-masted flag of South Carolina. Thus did his home state honor the late Jack Peurifoy, pistol-packing U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala who helped negotiate the cease-fire between anti-Communist Revolutionary Castillo Armas and the pro-Red forces he defeated in June...
Paramount Consideration. In speeches before the Organization of American States in Washington and the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and through all his press conferences, ran the theme that Castillo Armas wanted to leave with the U.S. and the world. Guatemala, he said, was "the first country in history that overthrew a Communist dictatorship." As a result, "nowhere else in the world can the effects of Communism and of democracy on the ordinary person be compared so accurately as in Guatemala...
...business depression, unemployment, droughts, a spate of charges that insiders (though not the President himself) are profiteering from government contracts and speculation in foodstuffs. Complains of the "no-idea" men around him, but has been slow to exercise firm leadership. As a result, has failed so far to make Guatemala the hoped-for showplace of anti-Communist prosperity-but $15 million granted last week by the U.S. International Cooperation Administration (mostly for job-making road construction) will help...