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...home gatherings of a few friends on Manhattan's Upper West Side to twice- monthly meetings of the Metro D.C. Dream Community, a 150-member network. Others are visiting dream consultants. At the San Francisco Dream Center, run by two duennas of the movement, Psychologist Gayle Delaney and Psychiatrist Loma Flowers, a private 50-minute session costs $90, and a 90-minute group meeting $35 to $50. Scores of devotees showed up in Arlington, Va., for the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams. There they heard the latest scientific findings on dreams, traded visions at breakfast...
DIED. Michael Fragosa, a three-year-old boy afflicted with AIDS; in Loma Linda, Calif. Michael had contracted the ailment at birth from his mother, who died last year, and spent much of his life in hospitals. As his condition worsened, he asked to talk to President Reagan about the hungry children of Africa. Before Michael died, Reagan sent him a letter that said, "Your concern for others, even as you struggle with your health, is awe-inspiring...
...small towns, burning government buildings and public records. In response, the Salvadoran government, with the help of U.S. military advisers, has been rejuvenating the country's civil defense network. One of the rebels' publicly declared goals is to undermine that effort; the object of the assault on Santa Cruz Loma was the village's still poorly trained and equipped 16-man civil defense unit. "We denounce the killer regime of (President Jose Napoleon) Duarte," read leaflets left on some of the corpses. "It is trying to use campesinos in paramilitary organizations to give security to their unjust system...
...major attack, but to resist just long enough for armed helicopters and regular troops to come to their aid. While the program has proved its value in at least half a dozen guerrilla raids since last fall, it is just getting under way in some areas. In Santa Cruz Loma, the civil defense squad did have automatic rifles--but tragically had no field radios to call for help from an army post only five miles away...
...Salvadoran army has been more aggressive in conducting sweeps of guerrilla country, and claims to have the Marxist rebels on the defensive. But the guerrillas have proved adept at disappearing into the bush, then materializing again for attacks like the one last week on the village of Santa Cruz Loma (see WORLD...