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Author excellent story, ably presented by screen-writer Kathleen Knutsen Rowell and director Coppola, sensitively explores the pressures which a tradition of delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows...
...were principally in the adjacent Nicaraguan departments of Jinotega and Nueva Segovia. Those assaults have often been matched by fighting in the Nicaraguan department of Zelaya, on the country's Atlantic coast, where the Sandinistas have alienated many of the resident Miskito Indians with a heavyhanded and often brutal attempt at "revolutionary" cultural integration...
Behind the coordinating committee are said to be three military general staffs who run the current guerrilla campaign. The first, which is composed of former National Guard officers, has been purged of its most brutal elements from the days of the Somoza regime-at the urging of the CIA. The second staff group is made up of members of the Honduran military, plus Colonel Bermúdez and a military representative from Argentina, a country that has also been heavily involved in training and equipping the contras. According to the F.D.N., a key member of the second staff...
...fact, the Guatemalan military and right-wing paramilitary forces aligned with it have been responsible for the great majority of civilian deaths in the country. The military continues its brutal terrorizing of Indian villages in several provinces. Last November, the government bombed the villages of Montecristo and Bulaj, destroying 85 homes. Members of the Special Forces--a right-wing security force--then massacred at least 36 people. In the face of this and other such well-documented atrocities, the U.S. continues to support Rios Montt, the new Guatemalan President, and states that future human rights improvement is contingent upon...
Such statements provide justification for increased aid and arms sales to the Guatemalan government. In January 1983, Reagan lifted an arms embargo--in effect since 1978--allowing the brutal Rios Montt regime to purchase $6.3 million in arms from...