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Through thronged streets in Guatemala City last week rolled an open Chrysler carrying two men who looked astonishingly like President Carlos Castillo Armas and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Ricardo!" pleaded the first, "Guatemala needs a handout...
Once a year in Guatemala, everything that is revered, respectable, powerful or pompous gets powerful but highly irreverent ribbing. The occasion is the traditional Eastertide Strike of students at the University of San Carlos, one of the most merciless lampoons anywhere. Starting weeks ahead, the students shamelessly shake down politicos and merchants for expenses, adding to the fund receipts from a scurrilous vaudeville show and a scandal sheet that flouts all libel laws. With the $25,000 to $30,000 they collect, the students build big floats that are, in effect, moving stages for the outrageous and often obscene skits...
...this year's parade was the first since Castillo Armas took power, and the students naturally honored him as Target No. 1. One float kidded his anti-Communist revolution last June. A wolf decked out in hammers and sickles was stopped from devouring a Red Riding Hood named Guatemala by an ax blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style of rule by decree, showing him whipping up two mules labeled "Congress" and "Courts." The motto of his revolution, Dios, Patria y Libertad, was devastatingly changed on the float...
...Ambassador to Thailand John Peurifoy, a career man who has ironed out messy situations in Greece and Guatemala, will take on, as an additional task, that of U.S. representative on the SEATO defense council at Bangkok. The job, equivalent to the NATO post to which ex-Assistant Secretary of State George Perkins was recently appointed, may become even more important, since the SEATO area, more than Europe, depends on the U.S. for its defense...