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...blared from a full-page advertisement last week in one of El Salvador's largest newspapers, El Diario de Hoy. Sponsored by the 702-member Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the broadside reflected a swelling tide of outrage in the conservative business community against U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton, 59. Reason for the uproar: in the toughest speech he has made in his 17 months in El Salvador, Hinton cautioned that the U.S. "could be forced to deny assistance to El Salvador" if the country did not substantially improve its respect for human rights...
Based on S E Hinton's novel for children and teens, the movie chronicles Tex McCormick's (Matt Dillion) coming of age. But unlike the plot in Dillion's Little Darlings coming of age in Bixby. Oklahoma doesn't involve a virgin's race to promiscuity. Instead, it deals with the education of a fifteen-year-old's sentiments as Tex reconciles his idealized happiness with his seemingly stagnant and often trying life...
...while Tex undoubtedly moves the audience--a braw I between Tex and Mason becomes painful to watch because they both are right--the film never becomes mawkish. Much of the credit for this goes to Hinton. Hunter and Charlie Hass who adapted the novel They pepper Tex with homespun locutions. "I'don't like all that femalism stuff," one soon-to-be says. "You men he got an entire woman pregnant?" another asks later. More important, though, and more interestingly, much of the screenplay's success results from lines that are never spoken. Many people get into fights...
...speech last week, Hinton bluntly warned the government that if it could not control rightist "thugs" it could lose U.S. aid. Said he: "You don't have to kill people in the night. You don't have to decapitate people...
...proposals for reorganization of the armed forces have come to naught: the idea has been resisted by the tightly knit brotherhood of the Salvadoran armed forces, which exists almost as a society apart from the rest of the country's citizens. Human rights atrocities continue. According to Ambassador Hinton, at least 68 people were killed in the first two weeks of October. U.S. efforts have been further set back by the disappearance of 21 leftists and labor leaders, several of whom attended the meeting in Mexico City. Last week the Salvadoran government announced that eight of the missing were...