Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took more than a wheel of brie and a litre of Gallo to get elected in those days, and certainly more than a position paper. Forty or fifty supporters of a city council candidate would get together, attach campaign signs and railroad flares to their cars, and drive slowly through the city. The candidate would gather everyone from the neighborhood at Thompson's Grove for a picnic, a ball game, and a pledge of undying loyalty through election day. And there were thousands of slate cards for kids to hand voters as they entered the polls, palm-sized pieces...
...number of student groups have urged the University in the past five years to stop buying goods from firms embroiled in public controversies--Gallo Wines, J.P. Stevens, and the Nestle Corporation among others...
...cover up these embarrassing incidents as best it can." Regarding the March 27 massacre, Anne Nelson states that American church people doing relief work in El Salvador verify that "something" happened that day. However, she won't reveal their names and organization in order to protect them. Sister Jeanne Gallo also suspects something may have happened on the 27th. "The numbers may be exaggerated, but then again, you are dealing with illiterate peasants who often can't count," she says...
...Nelson, Gallo, Casa El Salvador, and CISPES draw analogies between these recent reports of a massacre in Morazon, and a confirmed massacre at the River Sumpul on May 14, 1980, when security forces slaughtered 500 persons trying to cross the border into Honduras. Nelson, et al point out how slow confirmation of the Sumpul massacre was and how unreceptive the American press was to giving it prominent coverage--coverage that would discredit a regime that our government supports...
...uncertainly about the March 27 killings will continue until someone other than the El Salvadorean government officials will be permitted to visit the caves. In the meantime, the State Department will continue to voice its skepticism, and people like Anne Nelson and Sister Jeanne Gallo will continue to talk about similar occurances they saw in Morazon six months ago. And the Legal Aid Commission will continue to conduct its clandestine investigations...