Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Law School graduate whose husband, a Guatemalan guerrilla leader, was abducted in March 1992 has published a book about her ordeal...
GUATEMALA CITY: Pope John Paul arrived in Guatemala Monday amid intensive security precautions, just a day after what appeared to have been an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Guatemalan President Alvar Arzu. Hoping to speed up the sluggish peace negotiations that have done little to end the 30-year civil war, Pope John Paul is also waging what Mexico Bureau Chief Laura Lopez calls "the intrachristian battle for for hearts and minds". In recent years, the Catholic Church has lost followers in Guatemela to an increasingly popular evangelical movement. Lopez says: "There are only 281 diocesan priests, and 952 religious workers...
...belonging to the lawyer of Jennifer Harbury, a human-rights crusader against the Guatemalan military, was fire-bombed on Friday. The explosion outside the lawyer's Washington home raised fear of a terrorist vendetta. New Jersey Representative Robert Torricelli, a backer of Harbury's efforts to uncover the truth behind the death of her Guatemalan rebel husband, asked Attorney General Janet Reno to open an investigation. A Guatemalan army spokesman denied that the military was involved. On Saturday at least one shot was fired at Harbury's Washington home. She was not at there at the time. The FBI said...
...kiosk will also feature UNICEF gifts ranging from the traditional UNICEF desk agendas to handbags, purses and wreathes designed and woven by entrepreneurs in Guatemalan industries supported by UNICEF...
...merchandise was no less varied. Central Square stores emptied their insides onto the sidewalk, and merchants came from as far as Vermont to hawk Guatemalan bags and vests, jade statues of Buddha and faberge thimbles (two for five dollars...