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Black, now United Brands' chairman and president, has begun replacing the company's aging banana boats with modern container vessels. He has settled several antitrust suits, which were draining the firm of $ 1,000,000 a year in legal fees, by selling its Guatemalan banana division to Del Monte. In Central America, United Fruit had long been improving company-paid education, housing and medical care for plantation hands; Black has redoubled those efforts...
Other such dramas have occurred recently, including the 1970 murder of the West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...
...fear of disease, Indian mothers in the primitive Guatemalan village of San Marcos leave their infants alone in their huts during the first year of life. They have neither toys nor playmates, and they emerge from that isolation severely retarded-up to four months behind middle-class infants...
...found itself squeezed between Israeli determination and the weight of its own Nazi past, West Germany has seemed most comfortable with the acquiescent approach. Bonn has not forgotten the 1970 kidnaping of its ambassador to Guatemala, Count Karl von Spreti; he was summarily executed when a one-month-old Guatemalan government that was determined to strike a tough law-and-order posture refused to release 22 jailed Guatemalan terrorists and to allow Germany to pay a $700,000 ransom...
Evidence that parental behavior does affect speech comes from tests made by Kagan among poor Guatemalan children. There, boys are more highly valued than girls, are talked to more and become more verbal. In the U.S., Psychiatrist David Levy has found that boys who are atypically good with words and inept with figures have been overprotected by their mothers. Psychologist Elizabeth Bing has observed that girls who excel at math and spatial problems have often been left to work alone by their mothers, while highly verbal girls have mothers who offer frequent suggestions, praise and criticism...