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Guatemala opts for moderation

There was good news for the Reagan Administration last week in military-dominated Guatemala, where U.S. influence is weak at best. Some 1.8 million voters braved four-hour polling lines, tropical rainstorms and a bewildering array of political choices to cast ballots in their country's most open and fraud-free elections in more than a decade. In the race for a new 88-seat Constituent Assembly, citizens gave a strong show of of support to moderate civilian political parties and issued a sharp rebuff to the 8 military and the landowning oligarchy that...