Word: guatemalans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commander Ernest A. Munro, 40, chief of the mission's naval section, took the full force of the fusillade and died almost instantly as the car came squealing to a halt. The four Americans were casualties in a fresh outburst of lethal feuding between left-and right-wing Guatemalan extremists that has claimed more than 25 lives in the past month...
...terrorists went looking for blood. One night they carried off a 26-year-old former beauty queen who was proud of her left-wing sympathies, raped her and beat her to death with rifle butts. Vowing to avenge her murder, leftist terrorists drove up to the home of a Guatemalan army colonel early last week and machine-gunned one of his guards. The next day a leftist lawyer was gunned down with his bodyguard, and a right-wing politician was shot in front of his home. A few hours later, Webber and Munro were killed, caught in the savage crossfire...
...College at Cambridge. As a writer, he has turned out seven novels, ranging from biting political satires to surrealistic folklore, and been translated into 36 languages. Last year his leftist writings and political novels won him the $28,000 Lenin Peace Prize for exposing "American intervention against the Guatemalan people." Last week his whole body of work won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, carrying with it a $60,000 cash award...
Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
...took up swimming and broke several Pacific Coast free-style records. An English major, he dropped out for a year to try his hand at short-story writing, then returned to Stanford and switched to psychology. Before he garnered his degree he garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while she was back in Guatemala-and he was improving his Spanish-and then...