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...NIGHT NEARLY two years ago, three American nuns and a lay worker were making their way toward Zacatecoluca, 45 miles southeast of San Salvador, when five Salvadoran national guardsmen stopped and questioned them. Later, the soldiers claimed the women had tried to avoid a roadblock. No one will ever know the Americans' side of the story: they were raped, murdered and buried...
...refusal of a Salvadoran judge to try a local army officer who has been accused of ordering the 1981 murders of two U.S. land-reform experts and a Salvadoran labor leader. The U.S. is also annoyed by the reluctance of the Salvadorans to bring to trial five former National Guardsmen accused of murdering four American churchwomen...
...strolls across this hauntingly lovely campus in the beginnings of the great Southern autumn, it is difficult to conceive the chaos and mayhem of Sept. 30, 1962-the gunshots and burning vehicles, the bricks and tear-gas canisters, the federal marshals and National Guardsmen and airborne troops confronting the mob. Two people died, and scores were injured. It was the last battle of the Civil War, the last direct constitutional crisis between national and state authority. James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran, was enrolled as an Ole Miss student the next day. As a native Mississippian, I think...
...Earlier, enraged members of Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union had spread nails across the highway. Then, screaming "Scab! Scab!" they threw rocks and bricks at newly hired workers trying to enter the plant. Republican Governor Charles Thone was finally forced to summon 160 National Guardsmen to aid the 100 besieged state police. It was the first time that the Guard had been mobilized since an Omaha streetcar strike...
...incident that London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...