Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed a counterbalance to the Anaya murder, which has badly damaged his reputation for curbing the senseless violence. Second, in the event of violent clashes between left and right, the President would have scapegoats to blame for El Salvador's failure to live up to the strictures of the Central American peace accord. "Everyone wants to jockey for p.r. advantage," says a U.S. State Department official. "They seem to have figured out that when the January deadline ((for the peace plan)) rolls around, no one will be in complete compliance. So the thing to do is appear to have done...
...most shameful moments. Apart from the perpetrators of thousands of unsolved Salvadoran slayings, those who may be freed include the three men suspected of killing four U.S. Marines in San Salvador in 1985 and the suspected murderers of four American churchwomen in 1980. Seeking peace for all of Central America, the region's leaders will inevitably leave many of their people feeling betrayed and dissatisfied...
...Hindu invocation that often precedes meditation. Led on by the urgings of Jose Arguelles, a Colorado art historian who claimed that ancient Mayan calendars foretold the end of the world unless the faithful gathered to provide harmony, some 20,000 New Agers assembled at "sacred sites" from Central Park to Mount Shasta to -- uh -- provide harmony...
...bastard son of a merchant who achieved knighthood) in provincial Birmingham taught him his lifelong horror of grayness. His legendary Oxford career as controversialist, actor, debater, director, dandy and libertine imbued him with his tropism toward fame's warming light. Indeed, it might be argued that his life's central mistake was the innocent notion that he might dominate the great world as he once had the great university...
...that same quality among ourselves. In a get-to-know-one-anot her session, Juan Davis, a cherubic ranch manager from West Texas, reveals that a bout with childhood cancer made him aspire to be the best at his work. John Nino, the great-grandson of Italian immigrants to central California, runs a large Brahman cattle ranch by himself and for fun ropes four nights a week. Mohammed Talbi, a Tunisian villager educated in France, works for the Arid Land Institute in North Africa. Ron Lister arrived in Arizona three weeks before the workshop began with $40 in his pocket...