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...House. President Reagan declared that Hasenfus and his companions were volunteers in a noble cause. "Some years ago many of you spoke approvingly of something called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," he told reporters, referring to the unit of American volunteers who fought against Franco's insurgents during the Spanish Civil...
...state of emergency and issued an appeal for unity. "We'll come out of this, with the efforts and courage of all Salvadorans," Duarte said in a radio address. The magnitude of the disaster produced a rare show of solidarity in a nation torn by a seven-year civil war. In an extraordinary communiqué, the rebel guerrilla force, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, declared a temporary cease-fire...
...portent and reminder of the nation's bloody fighting. Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, who has mediated between the government and guerrilla forces, called the tragedy a sign from God. It was "specially directed," said the Archbishop, "to those that have the power of decision" to end the civil...
...Lebanon camps, we are not an international police force there. We are in Lebanon to serve our people and to fight Israeli terrorism. We also aim to stop the civil war and to help achieve reconciliation among the Lebanese...
...arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick us up and we would do anything you wanted, as long as it paid"). Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan was a mythomaniac with a backhand regard for truth. Accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee in 1963, he got fired up and tanked up and informed the assembled dignitaries, "Lee Oswald, I don't know exactly where--what he thought he was doing, but I got to admit honestly that I, too--I saw some of myself...