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...murder shocked Guatemala, but the shock has become familiar. According to the Commission for Human Rights in Central America, since 1965 about 38,000 Guatemalans have been slain in political violence or have disappeared. The past four weeks alone have seen nearly 100 killings, some at the hands of leftist guerrillas, the overwhelming majority by government security forces and right-wing death squads. The upsurge in violence comes as the country is beginning to prepare for November elections that are expected to bring to power Guatemala's first nonmilitary government in two decades. The elections are part of a campaign...
...terrorists in Rome carried no identity papers. But police determined that one of the slain gunmen was only 15 years old. The lone survivor, shot in the arm and shoulder, was too seriously wounded to be thoroughly questioned. He gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19, claimed to have been born in Lebanon's Shatila camp, and declared, "I am a Palestine fighter." Blood tests showed that he had taken amphetamines, and police believed that some of the attackers had been high on the drug. Investigators traced a currency-exchange receipt from a Rome bank in the possession...
Aquino responded heatedly. Marcos, she said, was "maliciously slandering" the memory of her husband, slain Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. She also charged the President with "political harassment," claiming that for years Marcos has tried to confiscate a sugar plantation owned by her family. Aquino revealed that on Dec. 3, the day she announced her candidacy, a regional court ordered the government to seize the property. As for the "pinko" charge, Aquino had a cool response. If elected, she said, she would allow Communists to join a coalition government if they renounced violence. NEW ZEALAND He Did It for Love...
...Reagan Administration studies the Soviets' plan for reaching a nuclear-free utopia by 2000 and wonders if the scheme is a genuine breakthrough or simply a propaganda ploy. Kansas Republican Bob Dole, the acerbic Senate Majority Leader, braces for a run at the presidency. America honors the birthday of slain Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday...
...irony was inevitable. While Olof Palme's life reflected his belief in an open society, his funeral was surrounded by the tightest security Stockholm had ever seen. As the hand-drawn catafalque carrying the slain Prime Minister's coffin wound through the streets, 2,000 police, paramilitary troops and army sharpshooters watched, guns at the ready, from street corners and rooftops. Half a million Swedes watched the procession, along with more than 600 foreign dignitaries, including 13 Presidents and 19 Prime Ministers. "There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations...