Word: beene
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This evolution of American official attitudes has been subtle and uneven. It has been couched in caveats, often obscured by ambivalence and articulated, sometimes inarticulately, by a Chief Executive who has no flair for geopolitical grand rhetoric and has a tendency to step on his applause lines. Still, the change...
But there was no shoot-out. Instead, as part of an agreement brokered by the Roman Catholic Church, the guerrillas slipped away, and the U.S. soldiers, using journalists as a shield, ran from the hotel to waiting military vehicles. But so alarming was the event that President George Bush, acutely...
The Sheraton siege brought the U.S. the closest it has ever been to exchanging fire with the Salvadoran guerrillas. It occurred just as the rebels' ten-day-old offensive, which had been fought in some of the capital's poorest neighborhoods, Soyapango, Cuidad Delgado and Mejicanos, seemed to be winding...
Future U.S. relations with El Salvador will be strongly influenced by how the Cristiani government handles the investigation into the killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of...
The FBI has been asked to help study fingerprints found at the scene, and since all Salvadorans are fingerprinted when they receive a driver's license, the murderers should not be hard to track down -- if the Cristiani government cooperates. If it does not, the rebels could have achieved a...