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...dynamite bast set off by a recently expelled Guatemalan Harvard student near Dunster Bridge in Cambridge, rallied about 500 undergraduates to a "free Puerto rice, free Guatemala" demonstration last night. The riot began at about 10:30 and lasted until midnight...
Stop the Reds. The chief problem that Dulles wanted to discuss with Latin American friends at Caracas was Communist infiltration in the hemisphere, notably in Guatemala. To the U.S., the ever-growing influence of Communists in a republic midway between the U.S. and the Panama Canal is intolerable. Since it is pledged to the principle of nonintervention in individual countries' affairs, the U.S. can deal with this threat to American security only by joint action with the other republics. At Caracas, Dulles is expected to press for a full-dress debate on a U.S. resolution condemning Red penetration anywhere...
...political issue that the U.S. regards as most urgent-Communist penetration in Latin America, specifically in Guatemala-seems to have discouragingly little appeal for the neighboring republics. With few exceptions, they regard Communism as an internal problem, and some will even resist, as "intervention," U.S. efforts to turn the spotlight on Guatemala's influential Reds. Unless Secretary Dulles and his men can do an expert, tactful job of persuasion, the Latinos may be inclined simply to place on record a piously anti-Communist resolution, similar to the one adopted at Bogota in 1948, and let it go at that...
...Rica. President José Figueres declared roundly: "Our country's No. 1 problem today is our coffee shortage." The local retail price had just climbed to 90? a Ib., and Figueres had tried in vain to buy some low-grade Brazilian or Colombian coffee to help out. In Guatemala, the situation is almost as bad, and last week the government banned further export of lower grades of coffee...
...later went on to found his own company at Stuttgart, died in 1950. His son now runs the company, turns out an annual 1,920 handmade Porsche cars (mostly sports cars) at prices from $2,400 to $3,300. * The U.S., Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti...