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...over Central America last week, would have seen nothing unusual. The mountainous, forest-matted isthmus lay quietly in the greasy November sun. Among the many human realities invisible to the buzzard were the boundary lines-the imaginary but very actual barriers that said: "This is Costa Rica; this is Guatemala; this is Nicaragua...
Tacho shifted his paunch and glowered at the is-foot stuffed alligator across the room. "The man responsible for this mess is Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
Lend-Lease. It was not only Guatemala's President Arevalo who was prodding Tacho Somoza last week. There was also a variegated group of political exiles, self-appointed enemies of tropical dictators, who called themselves the Caribbean Legion. Last spring they had flown at least 21 planeloads of arms from Guatemala right around Tacho's Chinese wall and landed them in Costa Rica-where they helped General José Figueres install a government that bears no love for Somoza...
Last month they went to Guatemala City for strategy talks with Arévalo and Nicaraguan exile leaders. Last week they made their first move. Guatemalan-registered air transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger...
Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city of Calakmul, one of the big finds of Maya archeology...