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Torres was interviewed by Arturo Argumedo, the Salvadoran Attorney General. In later interrogations she was treated with the hostility that Salvadoran officials often direct at witnesses. She was told that her name would be made public and that the Salvadoran government could not protect her. Moreover, the judge assigned to the case quit in fear of his life...
...Puerto Ricans are a "people who haven't developed a powerful will to become a separate state," Arturo Morales Carrion, a Puerto Rican historian, said last night to an audience of 60 at the Kennedy School Forum...
Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...
...Philadelphia offered him the unenviable task of filling in for an ailing Arturo Toscanini. He jumped at it. Although it would be five more years before the orchestra would summon him from the podium of the Minneapolis Symphony to take over in Philadelphia, Ormandy remembers that first time he stepped onstage at the Academy of Music as his greatest thrill. After all these triumphant years, after all the honors and premieres and tours (including the first by a U.S. orchestra to Communist China), after making the Philadelphia probably the most recorded orchestra in history (many hundreds of LPs, three...
...former presidential offices, most of the refugees in San José waited to fly on to the countries that had agreed to accept them. At week's end an initial group of 97 moved on to Lima, where the exhausted exiles were welcomed by Peruvian Foreign Minister Arturo Garcia y Garcia; an Iberia jet flew 50 more refugees directly from Havana to Spain. The overwhelming majority, however, indicated a preference for resettlement in the U.S. "All 10,000 would like to go to Miami," observed one Costa Rican official. "But we can't satisfy everyone...