GUATEMALA: First Anniversary

Decked with flags and resounding with fireworks, Guatemala City observed a festive anniversary this week. One year ago Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, the exiled officer who organized a shoestring revolution and ousted the Red-run government of Guatemala, returned in triumph to his nation's capital, later announced that his regime would go "neither right nor left, but straight up."

Freshman Politician Castillo Armas has done his zigzagging best to keep the promise. After briefly outlawing labor unions, Castillo Armas re-established them, purged of their Communist leaders but with strikes out of the question...

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