Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries to spread good will. Noting slight leftward turns by both governments, Arévalo exulted: "I don't have to paddle, I'm going downstream...
Julio Visiman of Winthrop House and Guatenmala City, Guatenmala; Varsity Swimming, Student Council International Affairs Committee. Juan Maegil of Lowell House and Guatemalan City, Guatemala; Lowell House Committee, WHRV. Varsity Swimming, Student Council Committee on 1943 elections...
Last month they went to Guatemala City for strategy talks with Arévalo and Nicaraguan exile leaders. Last week they made their first move. Guatemalan-registered air transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger...
...valo. He hates me. I don't know why. Lord, he has troubles of his own in Guatemala-why bother to stick his nose into Nicaragua?" Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, who is proud of his English, paused abruptly and jabbed a fat finger into the stuffed Guatemalan quetzal that hung by his desk. "The quetzal-symbol of liberty or death to the Guatemalans," he snickered. "There are lots of tame ones in the Bronx...
Guatemala was not on the list, but Debayle was hopeful of ringing in at least a Guatemalan observer. It was Tacho's peace offer. With all Central America rumbling war and rebellion, he hoped his neighbors would take it. "Nicaragua is absolutely planning no aggression," he cried, stroking the green, two-foot tail feathers of his stuffed quetzal...