Word: guatemala
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...taken to a barracks on the edge of a park. There the questioning began in earnest. How many American soldiers are there in Italy? Did I come from a rich family? Who paid for my studies and travel in Europe? What about the Nazis in South America? What about Guatemala? What do the people in West Berlin think of the Volkspolizei...
...Guatemala last week, President Carlos Castillo Armas, who took power in a revolution last June and was confirmed in office by a plebiscite in October, asked the country's new Constituent Assembly to set his term in office. By the legislators' formula, the term wall end March...
...spend two months studying U.S. public-school methods, will also get some idea of what the U.S. is all about. Apparently, the program has already had effect. Said Pedro T. Cruz of San Carlos University: "I am charmed . . . I am going to take this lesson in democracy back to Guatemala and help remove the Communist poison from the minds of our people." ¶ Worrying about the mounting debt of the world's most famous undergraduate debating society and nursery of politicians (e.g., Gladstone, Asquith, Attlee), President Michael Heseltine of the Oxford Union hit upon a scheme to make money...
...Noting that Guatemala's long-term contracts with the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. and International Railways of Central America exempted them from new taxes, Castillo Armas expressed a tactful hope that "foreign companies will make a contribution of their own accord...
...Guatemala and Honduras last week, voters went to the polls to elect their next . Presidents, and Brazil neared the end of the slow, complex tally (TIME, Oct. 18) of its off-year congressional vote. In all three nations, the overall pattern of results was reassuring for Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent...