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...Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, Archbishop of San Salvador...
...against the junta. Part of a $50 million U.S. aid package has been earmarked to help get the program off the ground. Still, the reforms have been criticized both by the right, which called them "Communist-inspired," and by the left, which said they were merely "cosmetic." Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the regime, fears that the junta will use the reforms as an excuse to crack down even more ruthlessly on leftist sympathizers among the peasants. The junta, meanwhile, anticipating violence, announced a "state of siege," suspending constitutional rights, and deployed troops around banks...
...security troops burst into a retreat center in El Salvador, killed Father Octavio Ortiz Luna and four youths, and arrested the rest. The military government of President General Carlos Humberto Romero said the church house was a guerrilla base. At a Requiem Mass last week, activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez, no kin to the Salvadoran dictator and his most outspoken foe, denounced the government accusations as "lies...
...people are left with one powerful ally who is not intimidated: Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdames, 60, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador. Typically, high-ranking Latin churchmen mute their protests; some are merely props of their regimes. Though many priests and some bishops have made brave stands, Romero, since he took office early last year, has been the most outspoken archbishop in Latin America...
...Arnulfo Arias, ex-President of Panama who was ousted from power and fled the country ten years ago: "Exile and jail are good for you. Don't be scared of them...