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...military sacked Ydígoras. Into his place went Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 56, an austere career officer nicknamed "el Buddha." So far he has proved a pleasant surprise...
...Peralta turned to the country's businessmen, asked them what to do, and took their advice. He promoted new trade agreements with his neighbors, offered low-cost credit to farmers, expanded cotton production on Guatemala's rich Pacific slope. "That land is so rich in nitrogen," says one cotton grower, "that you could sack it and sell it for fertilizer." This year's income from Guatemala's major crops-coffee, cotton and bananas-should reach $134 million, 35% more than...
Basis of Democracy. Publicly obsessed with the need for industrial development, Peralta told everyone who would listen that free enterprise "is the basis for the democratic development of our national economy." He held out the lure of low taxes, cheap labor and liberal tariff treaties with Central American common market countries. Business responded. Arrow Shirts, Colgate-Palmolive, and General Mills, for example, plan expansion of their facilities. And there are newcomers. International Nickel hopes to set up a $60 million strip mine, Texaco is building a $10 million refinery, and Kern Foods is making Guatemala its distribution center for Central...
...Maya Indians, and every year more and more of them drift into Guatemala City, creating new urban pressures. The military draws fire for its heavy-handed security checks. In one clumsy swoop last week, 200 men and women were arrested for failure to carry identification papers. Yet Peralta has promised elections before Sept. 15, 1965. Meanwhile, the boom keeps going...
...lonelyhearts club moved to adjourn permanently. In a Shoreham Hotel suite, Senate Chaplain Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris married Washington's Warren G. Magnuson, 59, one of the capital's most sociable eligibles since shortly after his first marriage ended in divorce in 1935, to Mrs. Jermaine Peralta, 41, a Seattle widow. The 20 guests included Lyndon and Lady Bird, but though the bride looked properly serene, those wedding bells nearly broke up poor old Maggie...