Word: marti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crackle of gunfire from the Guazapa volcano in El Salvador's heartland cut through the din of New Year's Eve revelry. But the bursts were not the usual barrage of death. Instead, rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front were sending up a celebratory salvo on learning that their negotiators had at last arrived at a peace accord with the conservative government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
...civil war involving the government and leftist guerrillas has left 75,000 dead in the past 12 years. Two days later, after 17 months of U.N.-brokered talks, the government and the rebels signed an agreement setting out a framework for reintegrating the rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front into society and offering assurances for their safety...
With Cuba an increasingly lonely holdout against the stampede away from communism, what better time for the anti-Castro RADIO MARTI to turn up the volume and hasten Fidel's political demise? Instead, a recent U.S. Information Agency study shows a shrinking audience. Radio Marti employees blame their director, Rolando Bonachea, for the defections. Bonachea has tried to "professionalize" the station's programming by increasing its anticommunist rhetoric. Castro's stations, by contrast, have won listeners back by giving them what they want: rock 'n' roll...
Sophomore Oliver Marti, Brown's crease-specialist and leading scorer in the Ivy League, was named Rookie of the Week after tallying nine goals against Dartmouth and New Hampshire. Marti, a native of British Columbia, just transferred to Brown this year. He has played box lacrosse all his life. This is his first season playing outdoors...
Assists: B--Darren Lowe 3, Sam Jackson 2, Jay McMahon, Oliver Marti; H--Mick Cavouti...