Word: devoss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, the question of who will become El Salvador's first freely elected President in more than 50 years may make a big difference to the kind of help that the Reagan Administration is willing-and able-to provide. -By George Russell. Reported by Ricardo Chavira and David DeVoss/ San Salvador
Reported by John Burnett and David DeVoss/ Guatemala City
...fields and volcanic mountains of the rich agricultural department of Usulután, seeking to dislodge elusive units of the Marxist-led Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), whose hit-and-run tactics have virtually crippled the economy of the strategic area. TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief David DeVoss accompanied the government forces and sent this assessment...
...scene, Honduran soldiers of the 6th Centaur battalion told TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief David DeVoss that Schwab's copter had strayed out of Honduran airspace. "It came straight at us from inside Nicaragua," said Juan Carlos Torres, 20. "The Sandinistas were shooting at the helicopter, and it was being hit. It was in trouble and just made it across to Honduras." Another witness, Santo Andre Valledares, 24, recalled: "When the gringos arrived, they fell out of the chopper and one looked to be dead. The Sandinistas kept up their fire for a full five minutes after the crash...
...Missionaries know an Asia seldom seen by journalists," said Bangkok Bureau Chief David DeVoss after this week's cover story on Christian workers overseas had taken him into isolated areas of Borneo and northern Thailand. He witnessed a baptism in a water-buffalo wallow and followed a troupe of Thai students who perform the Nativity for peasants. Eugene Morse and his brother Robert, both missionaries, led DeVoss to a mountain village for a Thanksgiving feast of pork-fried cabbage. And on one cold evening DeVoss accompanied a missionary into a thatch-roofed house and heard him address a dozen...