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...Diploma. Guatemala has been in a state of siege since February, when terrorists ambushed an army convoy, killing 15 soldiers. The guerrillas, some 300 strong, are led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a former army lieutenant who holds a diploma from the U.S. Army counterinsurgency school in Panama. There have also been reports of smaller-scale guerrilla activity in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Honduras...
...better off than Broadway. It began its first season on the wrong foot, when its producers built Arthur Miller's After the Fall into a Broadway-type hit, and the play's female lead, Barbara Loden, into a Broadway star. Of the theatre's other productions, O'Neill's Marco Millions and S.N. Behrman's But for Whom Charlie were coolly received, and The Changeling was disastrous. Because of The Changeling, the Center's Board of Directors decided to fire Robert Whitehead, the theatre's artistic director. With him went Elia Kazan, the director, and Arthur Miller, who will withdraw...
...Deltona Corp. set up an office in Frankfurt in 1963 to tap a market among U.S. servicemen overseas, now finds that sales to Europeans are as high as those to Americans. Europeans have bought $1,250,000 worth of lots at Deltona developments near Daytona Beach and on San Marco Island off Florida's west coast. A Nürnberg accountant named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been attracted...
...canal grossed $68 million last year, barely enough to cover expenses; in 50 years, the U.S. has not yet amortized the $380 million original cost. Nevertheless, the nationalists view the present canal as a Panamanian "natural resource," and that attitude guides even such able men as President Marco Robles and Foreign Minister Fernando Eleta. Their position, at least as an opening gambit: they will agree to a new canal only if the U.S. eventually turns it over to Panama, to be run as a profit-earning toll road, charging as much as the traffic will bear...
...first real test, the new government of President Marco Aurelio Robles, 59, was strong enough to act shrewdly and firmly against the country's leftists and ultranationalists. For Panama that is a rare quality...