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Last week's grim discoveries of "desa-parecidos"surprised no one in Argentina. From 1976 to 1979, during the military's "dirty war" against suspected subversives, at least 6,000 people disappeared, victims of death squads that often operated with official sanction. What gave Argentines hope was their new civilian government's apparent determination to bring to justice those responsible for 7½ years of brutal repression under military rule...
...With reporting by Desa Philadelphia with Gore
...plagued India since it won independence from Britain in 1947. In recent months, separatists in the twelve coastal districts of the state of Andhra Pradesh have been demanding the right to break away from the interior region of Telangana and form a new state to be known as Andhra Desa (Andhra Land). The rebel lion has mushroomed into a popular movement with the support of an estimated 99% of the people in the area...
...Reluctant Saint. Little Giuseppe Desa was a miserable child. He was born in a mean village near Otranto, Italy, in the year 1603. His mother treated him "with great severity," and the child, sickly and confused, wandered about with dazed eyes and slack lips, understanding little, forgetting even to eat. The villagers called him Boccaperta, The Gaper, and considered him an idiot...
...Viking's previous owner sailed her in 1949 from England to Panama, where the boat remained until DeSa bought it this spring. He intends to rent the craft in September before his Caribbean shakedown cruise...