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# SEBASTIAN LANELL## With Guatemala's### Guerilla Fighters"'ERE'S a rifle and bullets for you. You'll need them if we encounter the enemy. We probably won't; we're following secret trails known to us alone and, by way, the soldiers rarely come up into the mountains. Soon you've got to be ready for battle at any moment. You'll be depended on it now. Our life is very precious has to be to defend himself. That means he has to have a rifle..."Those were the first words I heard from a patrol of "El Negro", leader of a guerrilla detachment. That was at two o'clock of a raw winter morning last year. To reach the patrol my guide and I traversed through large areas of green and barren terrain, to the top of the mountains. My guide was a travelling march. We climb down dozens of hills and steep places, blazed a trail through a vast forest trees fifty me- tres or one or three metres in breadth. It seems before day in this mountain, we equalized the river. And that is the symbol of our freedom, which cannot be in captivity. We walked along mountain streams, rows of trees concatenated be- fore rolling time along march.We reached a quiet time on the way. Rising with the sun, we wielded up our hammocks, put our kits in order, breakfast and remain a quiet spot. At noon we stopped for supper and then marched on until five o'clock in the evening, leaving time to prepare a company, placed, held on one examine its end make a meal before dark. Suppers were our time for sleep.***months hence. On completing the training & control, most of them will work on repairing the transmission line of Caracas, Venezuela.In other news, in the Caro Al- Akbar the Minister for the Aswan H. Dam, Sofi Soliman, has named four dams which the Aswan project has already brought the country. The failings of the reservoir has be- en enormously over 5,000 million cubic metres of water. By the end of the year that amount will be counted. This enables new irrigation to be undertaken.The danger of flood disasters has been permanently removed. Last year proved that the dam can control even the highest Nile waters.The old Aswan power plant, 4 miles below the High Dam, now operates without seasonal fluctua- tions.Valuable fertile soils have been trained to use the project, people have been taught skills and supportably. Many foreigners are shooting on the High Dam are now doing a good job elsewhere.Back in Cairo from Aswan, I went to find out how the water works to decide the High Dam will be used. For the five years beginning since 1965, after the dam, as a number of new soil will be expanded by 173,000 hektares and will be 1085 across hektares. 178,000 hektares of new soil by 1976. In addition, 30,000 hektares are going to get personnel training of the project more grow are recognized that they will take place 30,000 a year.At the end of the U.A.R. a only step ahead over 6 million felakes, Iowan a time- nation importance for her pupils agri- culture stand still very uneasy. And Value then over construction project will take another two years to complete the. And will already harvest dam are under the first crop from new areas.A young man who only yesterday had also still been a student. De- spite his youth he has already prov- en himself a staunch revolutionary. All were well outfitted and well armed: tommy guns, rifles, full car- tridge belts, pistols, hand grenades- the "teeth" of the enemy, as the guer- rillas call their bayonets. Looking at their conversation, emaciated faces, 1. Could see that their life in the mountains must be pretty radical.After a cold breakfast-no fire was made for safety's sake-my guide waited back for the village and we went on to join the detachment. It was a two-days' march. We climb be- low down dozens of hills and steep places, blazed a trail through a vast forest trees fifty me- tres or one or three metres in breadth. It seems before day in this mountain, we equalized the river. And that is the symbol of our freedom, which cannot be in captivity. We walked along mountain streams, rows of trees concatenated be- fore rolling time along march.The patrol consisted of five men. These were a doctor, two parents and a student under the command of27 Jan. 196525