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...middle-aged businessman, a scion of one of El Salvador's oldest families, was impatient. He had been waiting a day and a half for his plantation foreman to report the results of a highly sensitive negotiation. Finally, the telephone rang with the news. The foreman had got in touch with El Salvador's Marxist-led guerrillas to discuss wages for the migrant farm laborers whom the cafetalero needed during the 2 1/2-month coffee harvest. The guerrillas' demand on behalf of the workers: about $4 for each 100 lbs. of coffee beans picked, plus food and medical care. The rebels...
Nonetheless, the businessman balked. "We can't afford that," he told the foreman. "The best we can do is give the guerrillas $2.50." After two more days of secretive telephone calls, a deal was finally struck. The grower would pay his laborers $3.63 per 100 lbs.; the workers would bring their own lunch. The guerrillas, members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), would receive $500 for the entire harvest. In return, the grower would have the services of all the workers he needed for the lengthy harvest season, and coffee trucks would roll unmolested from his plantations...
Several rows back sits Elbert Seiter, 48. Seiter is a foreman for a trucking company. His face is deeply lined; an ironed shirt gleams white against sun-beaten skin. "I worked construction all my life, and it's rough," says Seiter. "This is a rough sport, and I like it." Karen Stoffel, a secretary with a finance company, is there too. She has come with her husband Gary, a trackman for the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe Railway, and their daughter Courtney, 6. A heavyset woman with round, cheerful cheeks, Mrs. Stoffel says, "Wrestling is a release from...
...home town of Baie Comeau, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. "It was windy and barren country," she says. "Even the pine trees were sparsely needled. We bused to Baie de la Trinité and visited a crab factory, where Mulroney chatted with the foreman and we reporters sampled the product. Delicious...
...jurors confirmed that for some of them at least, this was the case. "The whole thing makes me angry," said Juror Jo Ann Kerns, a department-store assistant manager. "What they did to De Lorean could happen to anyone. That's the message. People should understand that." Foreman William Lahr, an insurance claims adjuster, reported that the jury hoped the verdict "would indicate to the Government that they should re-evaluate their investigative techniques...