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...Architect Kevin Roche's most delightful buildings does not look like a building at all. It is California's Oakland Museum, which is tucked under a lush terraced garden. Roche's United Nations Plaza Hotel and office tower in Manhattan, on the other hand, is an icy glass sculpture of almost overbearing assertiveness. His Power Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Michigan, with its innovative stage, codesigned by the late Jo Mielziner, seems as enchanting as the Petit Trianon in Versailles. His 23-story Knights of Columbus headquarters, suspended between four massive columns, which...
...same scene was played out at barracks across the country, and, with few exceptions, Guatemala's junior officer corps closed ranks behind the insurgents. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and 105-mm howitzers appeared in the plaza before the ornate, colonnaded National Palace. As some 500 infantry troops encircled the area, the coup's chief planner, a boyish, clean-shaven captain named Carlos Rodolfo Muñoz Piloña, set up his field headquarters in an arcade of shops on the far side of the square...
Although they knew of the unrest in the officers' corps, U.S. embassy officials in Guatemala were totally unprepared for the coup. When word of the action first arrived by telephone, few staffers believed it. Finally, embassy officials went to the National Plaza and were astounded to find it surrounded by soldiers and artillery. Grumbled a U.S. analyst: "Our intelligence here was about as good as four ladies playing bridge...
When Captain Muñoz and his troops set up their coup headquarters in the National Plaza on Tuesday morning, their demands were clear. They planned to hold new elections in 60 days and to bar military men from running for office. They hoped to weed out official corruption, turn over power to a new civilian government and get back...
...eyes closed and palms uplifted in prayer, the elders laid their hands on his head and shoulders and asked for God's blessing. An army helicopter arrived 30 minutes later to pick up the general, but he already had departed. Church members had driven him to the National Plaza in a car with darkly tinted windows, so that he would not be spotted. An elder was sitting by his side to witness the unfolding events...