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The violence is reaching new levels even for Guatemala, where left and right have been at bloody odds since a CIA-sponsored coup overthrew the left-leaning government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. For 27 years, the country has been dominated by a coalition of conservative politicians...
The information uncovered by the raids led to a dramatic change of attitude within the Guatemalan army. Once content to rely mainly on passive defensive tactics, the military is now launching sweeps through the countryside under the command of a colorful, French-trained army chief of staff, Brigadier General Benedicto...
General Lucas seems confident that the guerrillas can be beaten, but more than a few obstacles stand in the commander's way. By the conventional wisdom of counterinsurgency, where a 10-to-1 superiority of conventional forces is necessary to defeat guerrilla groups, the 14,000-member Guatemalan army...
Wrong. An as-yet unidentified hand knocked the ball from Trout's grasp, and in one fluid motion, Cornell's Lucas scooped it up and banged it in off the glass before time ran out. Final score: Cornell 57, Harvard 56.
"I don't know," Trout said in the somber post-game lockerroom. "Someone got in there, and the other guy [Lucas] ended up with it."