Word: guatemalan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oversaw the Central American Defense Council actions involving the use of Guatemalan and Salvadoran troops in northern Nicaraguan cities...
When such ancient treasures are discovered in Guatemala and many other Latin American nations, they legally become part of the national heritage and cannot be taken from the country without official sanction. But to the stealthy diggers in the Guatemalan jungle, the law means less than a Mayan glyph. They are members of one of Latin America's oldest and least honorable professions-grave robbers and clandestine treasure hunters...
...local politics. Among his earliest memories as a child in Republican Noblesville, Ind., are the thumping defeats suffered by his Democratic relatives in campaigns for local of fice. After majoring in government at Dartmouth ('63) and spending two years in the Peace Corps building latrines and wells for Guatemalan villagers, Kraft became a kind of political nomad: to Washington for a time as a Peace Corps recruiter, to Mexico with the 1968 Olympics committee, to California for a bit part in Jesse Unruh's unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, back to Indiana to manage a losing congressional race...
Blow for Blow (from the French women's movement) and My Country Occupied (Guatemalan), Friday and Saturday...
...line known as the Motagua Fault and measured 7.5 on the Richter seismological scale (the 1972 quake that leveled much of Managua, Nicaragua measured 6.3). The sudden movement may have answered a question that has been bothering geophysicists for years. Earth scientists have never been sure just where the Guatemalan section of the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates lies. Now they have an idea...