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...could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored up on his own hootch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into one of those hollows where a man had kin. The only excitement of the trip, made in mid-winter on horseback, was that it would kill the two children he had even while his wife gave birth to another, whom Jaybird named William...
...takeover would follow the course of Rawlings' first seizure of power in June 1979, when three former heads of state were executed. Presumably among those who will soon be tried: former President Hilla Limann, 47, who was taken into custody last week after an apparent attempt to flee the country...
...March of last year. One transcript read like this: "If people were caught in the village, they (the Salvadoran army) would kill them. Women and children alike. She said that with pregnant women they would cut open the stomachs and take the babies out...She said they would flee and they would give their children cold tortillas and a little bit of sugar so they would not cry because they were afraid that if they cried the Army would find them and if they found them they would kill all of them." They feared with reason...
...swim like fish in an ocean of peasants, Salvadoran leaders announced their determination to "dry up the ocean." Bodies still pile up by the roadways each night, and the terror has created tens of thousands of refugees and thousands of would-be refugees who were killed before they could flee. In the capital city of San Salvador, a "superficial calm" prevails, one visitor reports. It is a calm that almost surely will not last past March, when "free elections" are scheduled in the country. Four new right wing parties, including one headed by the grisly Roberto D'Aubuisson, have joined...
Then a technical error in their search warrant gave him time to win his release and flee...