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Critics of the outgoing government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores contend that political kidnapings and killings, aimed mostly at peasants, union members and university students, persist. Families of the "disappeared" blame government security forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...second source of unrest was the harsh new economic measures promised by the government of General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, including tax increases ranging from 15% to 50% on imported goods and new tariffs on most domestic products. When protests broke out in Guatemala City, the capital, Mejia Victores, who came to power in a 1983 coup, suspended the new taxes and called off the trip he had planned to take to the Vatican and the Middle East...
...Diana Mejia...
...rarities, a classical dancer with a chorus girl's legs. She was also Director George Balanchine's special protegee, rumored to follow Tamara Geva, Vera Zorina, Maria Tallchief and Tanaquil Le Clereq as the fifth Mrs. B. Then suddenly she married a fellow company member, Paul Mejia, 27, and, in the face of Balanchine's obvious displeasure, went into exile with the Maurice Bejart company in Brussels. However, three months ago, Balanchine, 70, was professionally spurned by her most dazzling successor, Gelsey Kirkland, 21, who went to dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater...
...legal battles, a "conduct committee" of the National Association of Securities Dealers found the brokerage house guilty of failing to "exercise proper and adequate supervision" over its San Francisco branch. The committee ruled that Harris, Upham be fined $50,000 and that the San Francisco office manager, Arthur R. Mejia, be suspended for five days and fined $5,000. In addition, Asa V. Wilder, the broker who handled Mrs. Hecht's account and who has since left the firm, was fined $10,000 and had his registration revoked. Harris, Upham has 30 days to appeal the decision...