ESTIMATED PUB DATE - TITLE DELETED - ARREST OF AMERICAN AND SPANISH CITIZENS IN

Created: 1/1/1983

OCR scan of the original document, errors are possible

I JANUARY I'

STATED THAT THE AMERICAN AND SPANISH CITIZENS, HICHAEL GLENNoAND MARIAASCANIO, ARRESTED BY THE COVERNKENT OF GUATEMALA (COG) ON II3 WILL RER TO THE JUDICIAL TRIBUNAL ONRANUARY AND PROBABLY RELEASED TWENTY-FOUR TO FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER THAT- THE GOG HAS DETERMINED THAT NEITHER IHOIV.BUAL IS GUILTY OF TEaSORtST ACTIVITIES. 3UT THEPQFPtRS THAT THE JUDICIAL S'/STSH RELEASE T'rlEHHAT THE

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INCIDENT, COMHENT: CMANUARY THE UKAL PRESS

ANNOUNCED THE ARREST OF AH AMERICANPANIAR3 IN SAM LUCAS

EPARTMENT OF SOLOLA, UHO WERE LEADERS

OF THE CUERRILLA CROUP, THE ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE IN ARMS

(ORPA).

THAT THE INDIAN WITNESSES WHO HAD POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE AMERICAN AS BEING THE MURDERERANCH ADMINISTRATOR LATER CHANGED THEIR TESTIMONIES UPON CLOSER QUESTIONING. THE INDIANS ARE NOT BEING BLAMED FOH THEIR MISTAKEN IDENTIFICATION OF THE AMERICAN SINCE TO THEM ALL ANGLOSIMILAR APFEARANCE. THE AMERICAN AND SPANIARD AROUSED SUSPICION IN THE SHALL COMMUNITY Of SAN LUCAS TOLIMAN BECAUSE THEY KEPT TO THEMSELVES AND DID NOT SOCIALIZE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS. THEY APPARENTLY DID NOT SOCIALIZE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS BECAUSE THE SPANIARD WAS FEARFUL

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of mistaken identity.)

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