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...shoulders last week, as the pro-Communist government of President Jacobo Arbenz began to crack down on its opponents. A dozen prominent citizens made sudden dashes for asylum in foreign embassies; hundreds went into hiding. The country's leading aviator climbed into his Cessna and fled to El Salvador. The chief of the anti-Communist Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes at embassy entrances, swooping suddenly for arrests...
...hunting and fishing club." (The State Department explained that it had refused because of the "obvious uncertainty as to the purposes for which those arms might be used.") Through depletion, Guatemala's 6,000-man army had become worse supplied than the armies of Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Now it is the best armed...
...round-up had been planned by top government officials, headed by police Col. Salvador Roig Friday afternoon and night...
...Designer Porsche, who later went on to found his own company at Stuttgart, died in 1950. His son now runs the company, turns out an annual 1,920 handmade Porsche cars (mostly sports cars) at prices from $2,400 to $3,300. * The U.S., Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Honduras, Haiti...
...proof, the white paper offered fac similes of letters allegedly written by two exiled Guatemalan rebels, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes (now in El Salvador) and Lieut. Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (in Honduras). Even if authentic, the letters appeared to prove nothing but the well-known fact that both officers would dearly love to oust their enemies in the Arbenz regime...