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...been expected for weeks by both Arabs and Israelis. On Saturday, Lebanese President Elias Sarkis had talked with the American and Soviet Ambassadors to Lebanon in an effort to head off the assault. On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet met for six hours. It discussed several security matters, including the unrest engendered by the shootings on the Temple Mount. It may also have reached a decision, after weeks of debate, on whether to launch the thrust into Lebanon...
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...
Even as the Salvadorans prepared to vote in the middle of a civil war, political unrest continued to rumble elsewhere in the region. In Guatemala, where a guerrilla insurgency has escalated in the past year, General Angel Anibal Guevara Rodríguez was officially confirmed as the country's next President, continuing the rule by right-wingers and the military. But Guevara's election was marred by widespread charges of fraud. Warned one Guatemalan opposition leader: "Something is going to happen here. I can feel it. The will of the people has been mocked one time too many...
Israel's decision to fire Tawil provoked further unrest in the West Bank. Already outraged by Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights last December and the closing of Bir Zeit University last month, local leaders called a three-day general strike that shut down all stores and schools. Late last week, after a series of stonethrowing incidents by youths in El-Bireh, the protests culminated in tragedy. Israeli troops fired on the demonstrators, killing a 17-year-old Palestinian youth and wounding two teen-age girls. Later the same day, Israeli soldiers lobbed tear gas canisters...
...encourage "pluralism," have been moving zealously leftward ever since. Honduras (pop. 3.9 million) has a moderate government, but is fearful that it will catch the virus of rebellion from its neighbors. Even Costa Rica (pop. 2.3 million), a stable democracy, fears that its economic problems will cause social unrest that could lead to trouble...