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...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...
Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
Before the testimony, Fossedal's lawyer challenged the impartiality of the six members of the committee because of alleged prejudices against the defendent. Fossedal has decided to appeal his conviction of misappropriation to Ralph Manuel, dean of the college...
...victims promptly rise up to rebuke and terrify him. Dexter has taken a sunny approach to this nightmare. Harassed frogs are still genial; abused cats take a philosophical view. In L'Enfant Hockney creates his richest, most brilliant sets and French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal coaxes the most subtle performance from the Met orchestra. It has been said that the Ravel work is such a perfect distillation of orchestral and vocal art that it resists dramatization, that no physical embodiment of it is possible. Perhaps.Yet the Met does justice to the masterpiece with an approach that is both witty...
While the tide of battle continued to go against the guerrillas, exiled leaders of the F.M.L.N. assembled a new seven-member "diplomatic-political commission" in Mexico City. The leader of this umbrella group is Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 49, a Social Democrat who was President Duarte's running mate in the 1972 elections, as well as a member of the original junta that replaced the military in October 1979. Apparently embarrassed by the guerrillas' failure to produce a mass uprising, the commission insisted that the current offensive was not, after all, the "final" one. But what goaded the guerrillas...