Word: firefighters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead the Dutchmen were followed by the army to the rebels, then murdered. A week before their deaths the four Dutchmen had been called in for five hours of questioning by the Hacienda, or treasury, police because the name of one of them, Jacobus Andries...
...demands on the press in El Salvador are especially trying because coverage of events may be more important than the events themselves. Mistaking a firefight for a massacre, for example, could have an incalculable effect on American policy-and, given the importance of U.S. aid, on the eventual outcome in El Salvador. This responsibility weighs heavily on many correspondents. Shirley Christian of the Miami Herald, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for her coverage of Latin America, has become even more influential among her peers since she published an article in the Washington Journalism Review detailing the failure...
...look at its boys, its heroes. During Viet Nam, in keeping with an almost sinister Government tendency to treat the war as an elaborate bureaucratic illusion, the military shipped people out alone and brought them back alone. The process caused surreal dislocations: one day in a firefight in I Corps, the next day standing on the American tarmac somewhere, as if nothing had happened. One veteran remembers the awful solitude of homecoming: "They let us off on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge. I had to hitchhike to the San Francisco airport because of a transit strike." The Americans...
...hill in a cornfield, we ran into a full-scale firefight. The guerrillas opened up with a .30-cal. machine gun from a clump of trees on a neighboring hilltop. Captain Juan Vicente radioed to Red Troop, an infantry unit operating near by. "Chele, Chele [Blondie], this is Grapefruit," he barked. "We have contact with their machine gun." He ordered Red Troop to move up and try to cut off the rebels. Turning to his own men, he muttered, "They're firing away like madmen. Let's hope they'll use up all their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge...
...pillage at gunpoint. Citizens, if caught out of doors, can be routinely gunned down in the street. Shortly after we arrived, a young businessman tried to illustrate the pervasiveness of the violence: "I went home to change my clothes at 10:30 this morning-and got caught in a firefight. That night I could hear bullets ricochet off a nearby building...