Word: os
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...os Montt discomfits guerrillas but postpones elections...
Police at the University of California at I os Angeles (UCLA) are searching for a man suspected of flashing women students and molesting their feet while they were looking for books in campus libraries...
...politics, you get what you deserve." Although Guatemala is desperately short of priests, Casariego wants troublesome missionaries to leave. The Cardinal is equally perturbed by the growth of Protestant churches, which now claim 21% of the population, including the head of the government, General Efraín Ríos Montt. The general, whose brother is a Catholic bishop, is a born-again Christian who found his new faith in 1978 at a tent church run by Pentecostals from California. Some of the evangelists were converts from the drug culture...
...onetime presidential candidate and a member of the California-based Christian Church of the Word, Ríos-Montt seems to have set out to reform his country overnight. Relying on "God, my master, my king," as he says in his speeches, he has ordered the arrest of at least two dozen former officials on a variety of charges. He has called for a spiritual and moral transformation, promising "absolute respect for human rights." He has urged all priests who fled into exile during the previous regime to return without fear of reprisal, and permitted university students to hold...
Nobody suggests that Ríos-Montt has yet addressed himself to such endemic Guatemalan problems as poverty, hunger and civil war. But he has done a notable job of gaining public trust as he restored order in the capital. He faces some opposition from the politicians, who want him to announce a date for new elections, and even from within the junta. But other Guatemalans are wondering if it would not be better to give the born-again general a chance to demonstrate what else he can accomplish...