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...careful and heed the advice of the bellboys at the Sheraton El Salvador or the Camino Real in San Salvador, a fabulous spring or summer vacation is waiting for you. "I was down there in December, and I swear--if you didn't read the newspapers or listen to the radio, you'd never know there was a war going on," reports Gloria Malloy, a manager for TACA, the El Salvador an airline. "It was so peaceful in the city...
...deaths-the eleventh and twelfth of foreign journalists in Central America since 1979, but the first in more than a year-sent alternating eddies of lament and reminiscence through the men's colleagues. At the Hotel Maya in Tegucigalpa, and at the Hotel Camino Real in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, some reporters halfheartedly second-guessed the fatal venture, as if to suggest it need not have happened. The road was known to be dangerous, they argued: two British journalists had been fired on in separate incidents in the previous few days; in his final week Cross...
...quarters alarm Cassaleria. He needs to see the sky. And barns are too dark. So a special open-air shed was constructed at Churchill Downs by his gang of part owners. They have not been able to do enough for Cassaleria since last November, when he won the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif. After the race they realized that his good eye had been covered over with mud. He had run blind. The track was fast last Saturday, but Cassaleria ran 13th. He never seemed to be leading with the correct foot. "Cassaleria didn...
...Camino Real hotel in San Salvador, where most of them stay, the 200-odd foreign journalists in El Salvador daily swap stories of near misses and miraculous escapes. In one episode a photographer rolled under his car just in time to elude bullets blasting from a helicopter gunship overhead. In another, a van carrying an NBC crew had its windows blown out; the passengers got away unhurt save for cuts from flying glass. Such adventures are often recounted with black humor, and justified on the grounds of competitive pressure. Says one U.S. newsman: "If another network gets a story...
Most of the journalists are from the U.S., but there are contingents from Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Japan and Brazil. Paul Ellman of the Times of London, looking at the "circus" at breakfast at the Camino Real, sighed for the days a year ago when "only one floor of the hotel was operating, for six or seven reporters." Back then, he said wistfully, "it was a great little...