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Coolidge said Dr. Guillermo Herrera, professor of Tropical Diseases, left last Wednesday for Guatemala to observe the situation...
...higher than the rest of OPEC, the country suddenly found itself losing $20 million a month in foreign currency. The government slapped a 60% tax on luxury imports, such as automobiles; the levy has been so unpopular that it helped spur on plotters who attempted a coup against President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara a month...
...largest exporter of bananas, has often been regarded as the quintessential banana republic. Though the country has been stable for the past 3½ years, some sophisticated Ecuadorians still evaluate coups the way other people rate horses or vintage wines. Last weekend's abortive attempt to oust President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara, which left in its wake 17 people dead and 80 wounded, ranked very low on the scale. "I've never seen a coup so stupidly organized," sniffed one Quito connoisseur...
...Guillermo Hernan Herrera Manriquez was arrested by DINA, Chile's dread secret police, near Santiago's central railroad station. Herrera was detained briefly and then was taken to his father's home; along with the rest of his family, he was placed under house arrest. The next day Herrera was allowed to speak to his wife, who reported that he had been badly beaten and his ears, mouth and genitals subjected to electric shock. Herrera was permitted no medical attention by his DINA guards. Two days later, his father heard noises from the room where...
...wait in line like everybody else, and we get rained on like everybody else," explained Cuban-born Jorge Guillermo, the assistant director of a day-care center in Manhattan. Still, when Guillermo, 29, and his fiancée, 28, a French and music teacher in New York City, travel to The Hague to be married this summer, the ceremonies will be more than a city hall affair. The bride: Princess Christina, youngest daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Christina, partially blind since birth, and her husband will begin married life in New York with a royal...