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...music," Ely states proudly, "is a strong, aggressive attack," and at a time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
They are too aggressive. "They are often inexperienced, arrogant, highly individualistic operators with no patience for team effort," says Nelson Cornelius, manager of the Merrill Lynch commodities office in Chicago. Admits Dean Donald Carroll of Wharton: "Our system has a built-in tendency to reward the aggressive loner, so we get a higher number of relatively antisocial types who display a tendency not to suffer fools...
...reports, only a handful of U.S. newspapers did the same. The answer several American journalists explained, is that most American papers are afraid to print anything which has not been confirmed by several sources. "To have your credibility on the line is hair-raising," says one editor. Adds Nelson, "Many editors are reluctant to seem extreme politically, to seem supportive of the left. But the problem with this 'non-extremism' is that it ends up seeming like you are supporting the right...
...Nelson, Gallo, Casa El Salvador, and CISPES draw analogies between these recent reports of a massacre in Morazon, and a confirmed massacre at the River Sumpul on May 14, 1980, when security forces slaughtered 500 persons trying to cross the border into Honduras. Nelson, et al point out how slow confirmation of the Sumpul massacre was and how unreceptive the American press was to giving it prominent coverage--coverage that would discredit a regime that our government supports...
...uncertainly about the March 27 killings will continue until someone other than the El Salvadorean government officials will be permitted to visit the caves. In the meantime, the State Department will continue to voice its skepticism, and people like Anne Nelson and Sister Jeanne Gallo will continue to talk about similar occurances they saw in Morazon six months ago. And the Legal Aid Commission will continue to conduct its clandestine investigations...