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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the packed vegetable market, hurried transactions are interrupted by rumors of arrests and raids. By 11 a.m., the shops are shuttered and the shabab take over, attacking and evading soldiers. Five toughs from a Palestinian gang called the Black Panthers swagger down the street only two blocks from an...
The pattern would be tedious if it were not so deadly. Every time the government of El Salvador announces that, yes, the rebel offensive is finally over and the capital of San Salvador is safe again, the guerrillas pop up in yet another neighborhood.
The Sandinistas have admitted supplying the F.M.L.N. with other types of weapons in the past. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not been able to come up with hard information about the nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid...
Amid the 16-ft. seas and gale-force winds that had pounded the island all day, Bush and his party returned to the Belknap Saturday afternoon, their launch rolling so heavily that it had to make several passes before it connected successfully with the American warship. Eventually the weather forced...
THE PIANO LESSON. August Wilson's Broadway-bound drama, at Washington's Kennedy Center, is the finest work yet from the foremost active American playwright, a heart-rending family debate over how to deal with the legacy of slavery.