Guatemalan Leader Slain At a Party for Daughter, 10

June 27, 1972

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GUATEMALA CITY, June 26 (Reuters) — Olivero Castaneda Paiz, a major political leader, was shot to death last night at a 10th birthday party for his daughter in a restaurant here.

Mr. Castaneda Paiz, 34 years old, was apparently the latest victim in a long struggle be tween the right‐wing leadership of Guatemala and the country's left‐wing guerrillas. Only 11 days ago, he was elected First Vice President of Congress, making him the No. 2 man in the legislature. Later the police reported that a left‐wing guer rilla and two policemen had been killed in two separate in cidents here.

Mr. Castaneda Paiz, the po lice said, was killed in the small, dimly‐lit restaurant with his wife, his daughter and two cou ples when two young men wear ing leather trousers and Panama hats walked within three feet of him. One drew a 45‐caliber revolver and shot him twice, once in the heart and then in the neck, and the intruders then drove off in a car.

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