Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week came Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," whose exploits in aeronautics kept Manhattan city editors in copy during the years before World War II. Colonel Julian came to public view, with a riffling of $1,000 bills, as he boarded an airliner to leave Guatemalan City, fared from his latest position as arms buyer for the Guatemalan government...
...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
...Doroteo Flores, 30, the 26-mile, 385-yd. Boston Marathon. Flores, a Guatemalan mill weaver, was the seventh foreigner in a row (other winners: two Koreans, a Japanese, a Swede, a Canadian, a Greek) to win the annual Patriot's Day race...
From pinks to Reds, Guatemalan leftists have closed their ranks. First the left-wing Revolutionary Action Party (P.A.R.), the government's strongest political supporter, made an alliance with the Socialists. Then the two groups signed up two minor pro-government parties in a "Democratic Front." Avowed purpose of the front: "To defend the Guatemalan Revolution and unify the [government] forces in the struggle against anti-Communism." That, translated out of political doubletalk, meant that Guatemala's Communists are still influencing the government and wielding power far out of proportion to their actual numbers...
...Front," having a clear majority in Congress, will be able to elect one of its own men president of Congress next month. That post has a special significance in Guatemala because its holder is also the President's legal successor. And the succession has an added importance in Guatemalan eyes these days because, despite official denials, rumors keep cropping up that President Arbenz is in poor health and may soon have to retire or take a leave of absence...