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...American bishops have understandably been influenced by the tragedies that have befallen a number of clergy and church workers in El Salvador, including the slaying of liberal Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in March 1980 and the murders of four American women missionaries later that year. Right-wingers are suspected of killing the archbishop and five former national guardsmen have been charged with killing the missionaries. The bishops have contended for two years that the U.S. must not become too closely identified with the Salvadoran government. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington last year told the House Subcommittee on Inter-American...
Hogan's ability to relate to players is the quality most often mentioned by her admiring charges. "She's really sensitive to the team's psyche," senior co-captain Valerie Romero says...
...instance of her compassion was her treatment of Romero, who went down with a twisted ankle in the middle of the season. Hogan still made sure that Romero was at all the practices and the games, "she said she wanted me to help her coach," Romero says, adding that "it made me feel I was contributing something...
...plank described by the Boston Globe as "direct military rule and unrestrained repression against anyone thought to sympathize with the left." Former ambassador White has called ARENA'S candidate, Maj. Roberto D' Abuisson a "psychopathic killer" because of D' Abuisson's purported role in the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero...
Born in eastern El Salvador to a middle-class family, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was by his own admission a conservative. In the months after his appointment as archbishop of the church in El Salvador, though, Romero watched the right kill several of his priests. And he read his Bible again. And soon he was speaking out so loud that the pathetic "men" running his nation had not choice but to kill him. The day before he died, Romero said this from the pulpit--"It is time that you come to your senses and obey your conscience...