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...town and the gown met in the small hours of that Sunday morning, when two Cambridge police officers entered Adams House C-Entry to check on a noise complaint. Before the police left, a scuffle broke out between Fernando Marti '88-'89 and the officers. They dragged him down the stairs and slammed him against their cruiser, according to eyewitness reports...
Explanations, but not excuses, for the officers' conduct lie in several other reported details: that Marti yelled at the officers, refused to show an I.D. and taunted them by asking, "What right do you have, coming here like Gestapo?"; that he injured the patrolman who may have started the brief fight with him; and that the policemen thought they had entered the private Pi EtaClub, when they were actually admitted into Adams House...
...growing record of policy failures. The President, who has another year to serve, took office in 1984, promising to end the war and restore economic health to the country. But today some 40% of the country's workers are unemployed and El Salvador's war against the Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front sputters on, a point that guerrillas underscored by knocking out 80% of the country's electricity supply on election eve. Duarte's popularity in Washington, once a source of strength at home, is ridiculed today by many Salvadorans, who feel that U.S. advice and assistance have brought...
...little-known leftist group called the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Guerrilla Commandos claimed responsibility. It is an offshoot of one of five guerrilla armies in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, which has been fighting the U.S.-backed government for the past eight years...
...squads still roam the countryside and prowl city streets. In late October, Herbert Anaya, president of the nongovernmental Commission for Human Rights, was gunned down in San Salvador. His death led to cancellation of cease-fire talks between the government and the guerrillas of the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N...