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...regarded as a conservative in his views, Romero had spoken out more and more boldly against the repressiveness of the country's rulers since his appointment as archbishop in 1977. He bitterly assailed Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero (no relation) and the notorious activities of the National Police and ORDEN, the brutalizing paramilitary arm of Romero's and other regimes. The archbishop had ample provocation. No fewer than seven priests have been murdered in the past three years by pro-government forces, and Catholic activists were frequently among those subjected to beatings and torture...
...Salvador unless they left the country in 30 days. The Jesuits stayed, and so far none have been murdered, but it is clear that they, indeed all active Catholics, face harassment, torture and death at the hands of the vigilantes, the national police and the dreaded 50,000-member "Orden" militia. This past Easter at least 29 people were killed in a vicious raid on an area where the Christian Peasants' Federation was active...
Other Dartmouth standouts have been Captain Tom Hoober in the butterfly, John Van Orden in the distance free-styles, and Tony Dalrymple in the sprints. Van Orden and teammate Dave Hough, both sophomores, could show up well in the distances since Harvard's Dave Abramson will probably be out with back trouble...
...squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove that Chile's average infant mortality rate could be cut from 21.7% to less than 2%. For this, she became last fortnight the second woman* to receive the Chilean Government's highest decoration to foreigners: the Orden al Merito...
...real power in Argentina was a group of Army officers called the GOU.The initials stood for "Gobierno, Orden, Unidad" (Government, Order, Unity). But the GOU group was soon nicknamed "The Colonels." And it soon became clear that the Colonel of the Colonels was Juan Domingo Perón. He was Vice President, War Minister and Secretary of Labor and Welfare. If Americans had never heard of him, neither had many Argentines...