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There were 10,000 violent deaths in El Salvador last year, and this year the total already tops 3,000. Tens of thousands of peasants have been forced to flee the countryside and settle in makeshift refugee camps in the larger cities and across the border in Honduras. As Father Manuel Torruella said in his homily at San Salvador Cathedral last Sunday, "It is sad to see our country destroyed. What will be left to a country as poor as ours after this? No matter who wins, what will we have left...
...sharp-eyed lady of about 60: "I pray for Jean Harris every night. I know all about men. I know what they did to me. They went out with my girlfriends." And so there were television crews catching catnaps in the corner, and authors calling their agents from the makeshift phones in the lobby-cum-pressroom. After more than 47 hours of deliberation, a final secret ballot was taken. A unanimous verdict was reached. A note was passed to Judge Russell Leggett, and he reconvened the court...
...other community schools now operate in Los Angeles, all founded since 1978, when busing was first required in the 710-sq.-mi. school district, and the average busing distance turned out to be 40 miles a day. The new schools are for the most part makeshift: no frills, no gyms, no scholarships. The Palisades Village School has no library and no cafeteria: students use the public library and eat bag lunches in the park. Teachers scrimp too, earning from $9,000 to $13,500 a year, compared with the $10,000 to $25,000 offered by the public schools...
After O'Dell's second red-lighter to end the first period, Newell, playing on a makeshift line of defensemen, converted a Jennifer White rebound to knot the contest at three. Moments later, leading scorer Diane Hurley tapped in a Lightfoot centering pass for a 4-3 Crimson lead...
...gutted railroad station, Iraqi soldiers use wall portraits of Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...