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...Guatemala, voters will go to the polls on March 5 to select a successor to General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, 48, a take-charge officer who has run the country since 1974. The election will offer limited choices. Besides General Ricardo Peralta Mendez, who directed reconstruction after the country's savage 1976 earthquake and is the candidate of the powerful Christian Democratic Party, the field includes one other general and a colonel...
...Such killings are the trademark of Luis Turcios Lima, 24, a former Guatemalan army officer who leads a daring band of 250 terrorists. Though President Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro has offered the guerrillas an amnesty ever since he took over last May from the military regime of Colonel Enrique Peralta, they refused to lay down their arms...
...right-wing and Communist terrorists. Though Méndez was not talking specific solutions or programs last week, he was confident in the knowledge that he had fully 30 of the new Guatemalan Congress' 55 members on his side, and-for the time being at least-ex-Strongman Peralta...
...President last week, tiny, tumultuous Guatemala swore in a new top man of its own. Installed as its 21st President Julio César Méndez Montenegro, 50, a left-of-center former law professor who succeeds the 39-month-old military regime of General Enrique Peralta Azurdia...
During his campaign, Middle-Roader Méndez never spelled out his strategy for ending Communist terrorism. "Progress for all Guatemalans," he said simply, "is the answer to violent revolution." Just to give progress a hand, however, Peralta extracted a promise from Méndez that the military would have a free rein in hunting down the 500-odd guerrillas operating in Guatemala's hills and jungles...