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Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, June 2,1993 Guatemalan army ousts Serrano Bangkop THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala's powerful army ousted President Jorge Serrano on Tuesday and appointed his vice president in charge temporar ily. The takeover came a week after Serrano dis solved parliament and imposed one-man rule. Initially, lawmakers said Defense Minister Gen. Jose Domingo Garcia Samayoa took over the government Tuesday morning, and was negotiating with members of the dissolved Congress to elect a successor. Late in the day, a government communique said Vice President Gustavo Espina Salguero would as sume presidential duties until new elections could be called. It said Congress and the Supreme Court, disband ed by Serrano last week when he declared emer gency rule, would remain dissolved. The communique said Serrano was, "separated from his responsibilities in an action invoked by the army, private enterprise and political parties." There were no reports of violence in the capital. Linares and several other deputies said the mili tary was meeting with deputies to prepare for an ex traordinary session of Congress on Wednesday and elect a provisional successor. The mass opposition to Serrano's May 25 declara tion of one-man rule underlined widespread support among Guatemalans for democracy and a refusal to accept a return to dictatorship. That pressure may have prompted the military to take over, though Linares said the threat of an eco nomic embargo by the international community was what prompted the army to take action. Hundreds of deputies, business and civic leaders and military officers mingled in the three-story palace, holding meetings in government offices. They included several deputies and officials who had been in hiding since last week. Outside, hundreds of people massed in the main plaza, chanting, "Serrano has fallen, Serrano has fall en." 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Alcohol washes out anti-cancer effects from fruits, vegetables, researchers say THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The anti cancer benefit of eating lots of fruits and vegetables will be lost if you wash them down with more than two drinks of alcohol, re searchers say. In a study of 16,000 women and 9,500 men who underwent a medical screening for precancer- ous polyps in the colon, re searchers said they found that people with high levels of folate, a nutrient common in fruits and vegetables, were much less likely to have polyps. The exception, said Dr. Edward Giovannuci, was among heavy drinkers. They were at increased risk of the polyps despite a good diet high in folate, he said Tuesday. "We speculate that alcohol may have an effect on folate me tabolism," said Giovannuci, a re searcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and the Har vard Medical School. A report on the study is to be published Wednesday in the Jour nal of the National Cancer Institute. 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