Word: el
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student representatives of the main rebel guerilla organization in El Salvador last night attacked what they called an oppressive Salvadoran government and asked...
...capital on Monday, two women were shot to death, one near the Central University of Caracas, the El Nacional newspaper said...
Donald Gilman, the National Weather Service's long-range forecaster, is cautiously hoping that the tropical Pacific's El Nino and the North American jet stream will keep behaving, so that eventually rainstorms will be lured up from the Gulf to drench the croplands. Kentucky and Tennessee last week got a bit of that action. But many more downpours are needed. Iowa's rich loam has only a third of the usual subsoil moisture. Hydrologists have warned New York that if reservoirs do not fill soon, the city could have water shortages this summer. With California reservoirs at 42% capacity...
...estates last year, Colombian officials suspected that he might have been tipped off by Medina. A military surveillance team subsequently was assigned to tail the general. The spying operation reportedly established ties between Medina and both Escobar and another drug baron, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano." Apparently not certain that the evidence would hold up in court, the government allowed Medina to retire. Two days after Medina's successor, General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla, took over, the National Police launched Operation Primavera, the most successful strike against cocaine producers in Colombian history...
...influx of Central American refugees fleeing war-torn El Salvador and Nicaragua and economically-crippled Mexico has generated just as much mistrust and fear from Catholics as from any other group. Although Church social teaching says that when a country cannot provide the basic necessities of life, its citizens should be free to emigrate to those countries that can, Catholics have been as reluctant as other religious groups to denounce restrictions on emigration from Central America...