"General, watch yourself," warned Guatemala's Vice President, Clemente Marroquin Rojas, in his newspaper La Hora. "You may slide downhill." He was addressing General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, 63, Guatemala's headstrong President, who was treating the country to a double dose of wacky crises. Six weeks ago, to protect native Guatemalan shrimp from poaching by foreign trawlers, Ydígoras sent out P-51s on a strafing run that killed three Mexican fishermen (TIME, Jan. 19) and caused a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Last week Ydígoras brought on a school strike at...
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