Word: riverae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...
...says, wanted to marry her. ("Don't you know that fanatics, if they hate Jews, love to marry Jewish women?") It was from this trip that she came back fully determined to be a professional. Nevelson enrolled at the Art Students League, joined the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera's army of assistants, took up modern dance and worked at her sculpture...
...report, a priest near the village of Santa Rita Almendros was told by several peasants that they had been ordered by some National Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...
...household-a kind of Family Circle of the air. Helen Gurley Brown addressed the problems of working women; Rona Barrett dished up as much of the Hollywood dirt as ABC'S lawyers would let her get away with; and mixing hysteria with sensationalism in equal measure, Geraldo Rivera provided a kind of television version of the National Enquirer. Holding it all together was amiable David Hartman. Says ABC Vice President Squire Rushnell: "David Hartman is the most important single factor in the success of Good Morning America...
...This is our moment in the sun, our chance to feel vital," observes Julia Rivera de Vincenty, head of George Bush's campaign on the island. "We are starting to shed our second-class image." Agrees Mario Gaztambide, finance chairman for Howard Baker: "This should convince the people in Kansas that we're more than a winter playground...