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March 26, 1982
Coup leaders void
Guatemala elections
United Press International
GUATEMALA CITY —
Guatemala’s new military junta
declared the results of the
March 7 presidential election
null and void Thursday but the
head of the junta said he did not
plan to take over the presidency.
Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, head
of the three-man junta that top
pled President Romeo Lucas
Garcia Tuesday, said the de
posed president was being held
under house arrest.
The election, which the coup
leaders had denounced as
“fraudulent,” was won by Gen.
Aribal Guevara, candidate of
the government coalition party
headed by Lucas Garcia.
Guevara, who had been sche
duled to take office July 1, was
reported to be in the United
States.
The Young Officers Move
ment, which mounted the coup,
said it acted to restore democra
cy to Guatemala but it gave no
indication when control of the
country would be turned over to
civilians.
The three-man military junta
announced the decision to can
cel the results of the election at a
news conference. A military
spokesman said the junta took
the decision because the election
was corrupt. They did not
announce plans for a new elec
tion.
Asked if he would run for
president once civilian rule was
restored, as the army has prom
ised, Rios replied: “I will not
accept any candidacy for the
presidency of Guatemala be
cause I have responsibilities that
cannot be postponed with the
army and those do not figure in,
precisely, with the presidency of
the republic.”
Rios, who came out of retire
ment to take over as head of gov
ernment, did not say when civi
lian rule would be restored.
Rios said Lucas Garcia was
being held under house arrest at
his ranch in the remote region of
Sebol, Alta Verapaz.
His brother, former army
chief of staff Benedicto Lucas
Garcia, was being held with him,
Rios added. The junta chief did
not say what the new regime
planned to do with the two for
mer officials.
The New York Times re
ported Thursday that U.S. offi
cials knew of the plans for a coup
as early as January.
However, a Guatemalan poli
tician who said he was one of the
coup plotters told reporters
Wednesday the United States
did not know of the coup in adv-
“The first reaction of the Un
ited States was surprise,” said
Lionel Sisniega Otero, vice pres
idential candidate of the right-
wing National Liberation Move
ment. “Even their intelligence
service did not know about it.”
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In Washington, State Depart
ment spokesman Dean Fischer
was asked about the reports —
particularly if the U.S. Embassy
in Guatemala knew about the
coup beforehand.
“I’m not aware that they had
any advance knowledge of the
coup,” Fischer replied.
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staff photo by John Ryan
Stacey Rogers, a junior economics major from
Temple, helps Harold, Marshall, Carmen and Mike
collect ransom money for Ron Blatchley, director
of student affairs. Residents of Brenham State
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trip to the Special Olympics.
Amount of rice exported drops
Industry in sticky situation
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WASHINGTON — The
American rice industry is in the
doldrums, in spite of exports
that might equal last year’s re
cord, because exports are not
keeping up with last year’s bum
per harvest.
In the short run, Agriculture
Department experts predict lit
tle improvement in prices to far
mers.
There has been trouble on
the export front because of de
lays in South Korea’s promised
purchase of 500,000 tons of rice
so shipments may go beyond the
end of this marketing year. Sales
to other nations are better than
expected.
The Agriculture Department
said Tuesday that a bumper har
vest of 185 million hundred
weight would push total U.S.
rice supplies to a new high of
200 million hundredweight.
Supplies are up 30 million
hundredweight from a year ago.
A small increase in the domestic
demand for rice for beer may
take up just 2 million hundred
weight of that increase.
Supplies at the end of the sea
son are expected to rise to 51
million, about three times the
level of a year earlier.
The problem with South
Korea’s purchases stemmed
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last year’s consumption of 54.5
million for food, beer and seed.
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WASHINGTON — Sen.
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day predicted the full Armed
Services Committee will endorse
action by one of its subcommit
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