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onanist disorders in GuaT,enala
The following reports have heon received "roa overt sources and are sent for yourcreation:
tho Now Yorkdnosday,2
"anti-Cauunlsts haveincluding thc tamporaiy seizureorderumber of Ouate-alsn provincial towns recently, thc Interior Ministry said tonight.
Ministiy said 'several' pnrsons had been killed in the battle for the garrison at Lerada andsultannous outbreak in th'i nearby town of Camotan. Press reports said nt least six persons died in th* tiro clashes. The Uinistry announced alsoersons had been arrested on undisclosed charges.
"Intorior i'inister Iticardo Chavez Hackman said ths Government was in full control of the situation.
Chavoz ilackmanthat the disorders had been 'Instigated bys'.
eaalan Government hastrongly pro-Con3unist ror noro than seven years. Anti-CciTUnints have been demandingincreaai*i> insistence in recentthat the Convunirt Party be outlawed end known li^ds dismissed "rom Government jobs."
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'lister of Interior, Lie. Ricardo Chavez feclcsAii, doclsrod tr.is nernins that thl jovenment hae not considsrod thi possibilitycreein^ the restriction of const it-itional -uaran* osent in riew of th variousic lotionutaictionarit
in tha departments of Chiqulnula, Suehlt*po:iuo, Qu-'ialten.-inso, and Ojatemala. although tho incidents are serious tJi* Ooverreaent of the Republic believest the present tixe it <rill notcesaary totate of Siegeits stability is firm and order prevails throughout the country.11
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We have recoived no confinflation of the above reportsur
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