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...Correspondent James Willwerth went to Mexico City in the fall of 1980, he anticipated a fairly quiet tour of duty. Says he: "I foresaw a few stories about the Mexican oil boom, an occasional look at Nicaragua's revolution, and a side trip or two to report on Mayan ruins." He was wrong. "I had been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen murdered three...
Guatemala's increasing unemployment has benefited the guerrillas, who are trying to win the cooperation, if not the allegiance of the traditionally passive native Indians, descendants of the Mayan Empire, who make up some 40% of the population. The guerrillas reportedly are hiring some of the poverty-stricken Indians as fighters for $100 a month, plus food. The army, in turn, has offered the Indians protection from the combat in camps located in fire-free zones...
Rothman's next project is the script of a Hitchcock-like thriller that he says "follows out many of the book's insights." Tentatively entitled "The Mayan Codex," the script is now being read by agents and producers. "It's too soon for me to run to the bank," Rothman admits...
Some Belizeans- who are an ethnic mix of African, Mayan, Caribbean and European descendants - were still nervous that their little country had been left vulnerable by independence. Opposition politicians went so far as to protest the new status and boycott the independence ceremonies. But Prime Minister Price, 62, carried his country along, just as he has dominated it since Britain granted Belize self-rule in 1964. Says one diplomat: "He certainly knows how to use the levers of power." A onetime Roman Catholic seminarian, Price led the struggle for independence after his political party was founded...
...paper whe wrote on her symbolic analysis of a Mayan myth--the polpovuh--won the Bowdoin Prize this year...