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...best hope for the present appears to be some form of Ydigoras-Cruz truce, possibly to give the general the presidency but modify his wilder tendencies and guarantee continued U.S. assistance. The best hope for the future is the precedent of a notably free and orderly election. In mulling over the recent past, Guatemalan moderates could only mourn that Castillo Armas was cut down before he succeeded in easing political restrictions, building up a strong successor and demonstrating the ultimate benefits of his economic alliance with...
...London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings canceled. A day later came news that the firings had been cut from 40 to 30, and that alternative jobs would be offered all 30 discharged workmen...
Through eight months, the people of Cyprus have maintained an uneasy truce with the British authorities, awaiting the day when their cause would once again reach the floor of the United Nations. For weeks. Cyprus' exiled Archbishop Makarios has haunted Manhattan, a black-robed reminder of Cypriot demands. Last week, as debate started in New York, the island erupted with riots...
Peace Voter. In 1954, Lleras gave up his plush OAS post, returned to Bogotá as a private citizen. Talking and writing, he made himself the sober advocate of truce in the passionate political war, of a return to political sanity. Then, flying to Spain, he sat down amicably with exiled Laureano Gómez, once furiously hated by all Liberals, and persuaded him to agree to the essentials of a plan for sharing power between the parties. The truce, giving promise of responsible civilian government in the future, played an important role when the present caretaker military junta took...
Will Congress, split 50-50, be able to work effectively? Won't the parties clamor threateningly for the more important Cabinet posts? Lleras knows well that his truce may collapse over just such stumbling blocks. His answer: "No one has thought that other courses could be harder-for example, living eight years under a state of siege. But we have just done that, and I do not see why we cannot now coexist peacefully, rebuilding the country, for twelve years." A crippled beggar in Bogotá spoke for most Colombians when asked if he knew what the plebiscite issue...