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Loud Cheers. The chief target was La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, and its editor & publisher, broadbrowed Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. A delegate to the conference, Dr. Gainza Paz symbolized for the delegates the fight against censorship, and each time La Prensa's name was mentioned, the delegates cheered loudly...
...meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...
...Professor La Paz spoiled the whole yarn by announcing that he had found, close to the lip of the crater, a pit house of prehistoric, 1000 A.D. Indians who obviously did not fear the place too much to live there. He suspects that the legend was invented recently by white men. Geological evidence indicates that the meteor probably fell more than 50,000 years ago, when it is unlikely that humans were around to be frightened...
...Paz Tejada clamped on a strict curfew and censorship, began confiscating all arms held by civilians. He also called in the strikers and got their agreement to go back. Happy conservatives rejoiced that a new order had been established, with Paz Tejada as the strong man. Now, they thought, the Communists whom Arévalo had been harboring in some government posts would be sacked, and candidates opposing Jacopo Arbenz would get a fair deal in this year's election...
...rejoicing was premature. By week's end, at least 40 opposition leaders had landed in jail, and General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, the leading conservative presidential candidate, found it expedient to go into hiding. "With civilians disarmed," said Paz Tejada smoothly, "the army will be in a very good position to guarantee free elections." Nothing had really changed. Paz Tejada, who owed his present job to ex-Defense Minister Arbenz, had delivered the army's support to its old boss when he most needed it. And Juan José Arévalo was still president, having survived the 28th...