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...according to statistics reported last week, 75 peasant gangs with 1,500 men terrorized the interior, killing some 2,500 civilians and government troops. Today only 33 gangs remain, with fewer than 800 men. Government and civilian casualties have dropped 50% in the past year, while bandit casualties are up 30%. As in other guerrilla wars, statistics never tell the whole story. Several trouble spots remain, but hundreds of families are returning to their lands in seven newly declared zones of "total pacification" in the outbacks...
Mention Arevalo to a Guatemalan peasant (or to almost any Latin American peasant), and he will chatter excitedly, full of enthusiasm. A former professor of philosophy, Arevalo returned to Guatemala in 1944 when the brutal dictator Jorge Ubico was overthrown; braced by his proclaimed policy of "spiritual socialism," he was a natural choice to lead his country. Guatemalans remember Arevalo's presidency for land reforms and the organization of labor...
Blessed Monk. Esthete Makarios comes of earthy origins. He was born Michael Mouskos in 1913 in the coastal village of Panayia. His father, a typical gnarled and baggy-trousered peasant, recalls that he was a "bad goatherd," and thought him rather stupid. Not so the abbot of Kykko monastery, who was attracted by young Michael's intelligence when the boy became a novice at the age of 13; he later took the name Makarios, which means "blessed." By entering Kykko, which was founded eight centuries ago high in the Troodos Mountains, and is today the wealthiest monastery in Cyprus...
Nearly 1,000,000 people were on a starvation diet in Java; scores have already died of malnutrition. Peasant villages emptied as food supplies dwindled, and native families poured into already overcrowded cities. In Surabaya, Indonesia's third largest city, 75,000 beggars roamed the streets; half-naked children, five and six years old, begged for parents too weak to walk the pavements themselves...
...peasant, he was born in Cordoba, the Moorish city in southern Spain, and picked it for his matador's name. At 15 he entered village amateur events, determined, as he recalls it, to do or die for his widowed mother: "I told her, 'I will dress you in mourning or I will buy you a house.' " In 1960, his first professional season, he killed 72 young bulls-and ragged though he was, won 90 ears, 31 tails, 13 hoofs for his heart-stopping brushes with death. The next year he fought 109 bulls and was the idol...