Word: romero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SALVADOR. The Nicaraguan example directly influenced the coup that last October toppled El Salvador's own dictator, General Carlos Humberto Romero. In a desperate attempt to pre-empt a San-dinista-style revolution-with Washington's encouragement-a group of moderate military officers seized power. Then, in an effort to satisfy peasant expectations and calm labor unrest, the five-man military-civilian junta made its own attempt at reform. It expropriated some large estates and nationalized the core of the country's banking system...
...armed rightist gangs, who often operate with the approval of traditional elements within the military. But leftist guerrilla bands have countered with a ruthlessness of their own. The most spectacular example of this cycle of violence and counterviolence was the coldblooded murder last April of Activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, apparently by rightist gunmen. At his funeral, 35 people died in a stampede believed to have been sparked by trigger-happy leftists, who overreacted to an imagined rightist attack...
...Cosmos' left wing, Julio Cesar Romero, raced downfield, keeping the ball at his nimble feet. He rifled a pass through a crowd of Seattle defenders to Vladislav Bogicevic who had moved within ten yards of the goal, just off the left post. The crowd cheered, eager for action after 25 minutes of scoreless soccer...
Moments later, Bogie slipped the ball to Romero charging in from the left. Romero's shot tore into the right corner of the net, and the Cosmos led, 1-0. Brand shook his head and clenched his fists...
...year goes on. The violence has already claimed 3,000 lives since January-more than four times the number killed in all of 1979. No one is safe. Some victims have been dragged from hospital beds and executed. Catholic priests have been brutally murdered. In March, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. Earlier this month Father Cosme Spezzotto, an Italian priest who had worked with the poor in El Salvador for 30 years, was also gunned down as he was saying Mass...