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...fiery oratory and charismatic good looks, he was the standard bearer for his country's most extreme anti-Communist elements. There were rumors aplenty (but no proof) that he had links to right-wing death squads and that he was involved in the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Just one year ago, he nearly defeated Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte in a closely fought presidential election. But last week the political career of Roberto ("Major Bob") D'Aubuisson, 42, was at least temporarily eclipsed, when he resigned as head of the ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which...
...critics and human rights groups, who are already complaining about such speedy attention to an incident involving U.S. Marines while thousands of cases involving rightist death-squad attacks on Salvadorans remain unsolved. More specifically, many Salvadorans want to see arrests made in the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who had been one of the region's most outspoken clergymen. Last week the government announced that it was reopening the investigation into Romero's murder...
Back on the dusty streets where horse-drawn carts roll alongside the occasional Mercedes, other boys hope to make it to the big leagues, and those who have are often there to help. "I wanted to be just like Rico Carty," says Cleveland Pitcher Ramon Romero. "Maybe someday I'll be someone's hero." Mindful of his own debt, Oakland's Griffin supplies uniforms, bats and balls to a San Pedro sugar-mill team called, appropriately enough, Estrellas de Griffin. Andujar spends much of the off-season coaching teenage players there. Says he: "I could go to the beach...
...killings, which occurred when police were staking out a mountaintop television tower threatened with sabotage. The officers are also facing murder charges in a trial scheduled to start in August. During their perjury trial, they insisted that they had been fighting for democracy and against Communism. Former Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo, who had at first called the policemen "heroes," then reversed himself as they began to confess, was defeated in last November's election, in part because of the public outcry over the handling of the case...
...Romero, the only candidate who has held public office, said government funds would be difficult to come by. Instead, she said she intends to introduce legislation which would encourage high-tech industry to come to Roxbury and to train employees from the area...