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...Nicaragua, former Contra Leader Edgar Chamorro returned to Managua under a government amnesty. Chamorro had been expelled by the rebels in 1984 after he made public a CIA training manual that encouraged the guerrillas to assassinate opponents. More unsettling for the contras was Miskito Leader Brooklyn Rivera's decision to travel to Managua for peace talks. The Sandinistas, who have mistreated the Miskitos for their dogged pursuit of autonomy, are now offering the Indians a separate peace...
Midmorning break, outside a class on business writing: " and I said, 'Tom, you've got to stop writing your memos like Geraldo Rivera reporting the news, 'cause people are taking it personally...
Hours before the Santiago rally, the Pontiff visited Santiago's La Bandera slum, where Luisa Rivera, one of 600,000 people who gathered for the occasion, told him, "We want a dignified life without dictatorship." Replied John Paul: "Today has deeply affected my spirit." Earlier in the day the Pontiff had paid a 42-minute visit to Pinochet at La Moneda, the 182-year-old presidential palace. Details of the conversation were sparse, but a Vatican source said the Pope planned to urge Pinochet to forsake violence and allow democratic elections...
...torture chamber was exposed when another captive, Josephine Rivera, 26, bolted from Heidnik's 1987 Cadillac as it was parked in North Philadelphia. She telephoned the police, claiming she had been held since November. Rivera reported that Heidnik whipped the women with a stick and fed them a mixture of dog food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey...
...taste for mass-produced, disposable culture that we take for granted nowadays--a taste that even extends to our view of history. Where once the news media tried to place the news in a broad historical perspective, the closest they come today is producing specials on which Geraldo Rivera builds the public to a frenzy in anticipation of unlocking Al Capones' subletted crawlspace...