Word: salvador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revival of the United Nations has led to a proliferation of peacekeeping and nation-building operations in places like Somalia, Cambodia, Angola and El Salvador. These are often long term operations that have social or political goals rather than military ones; they focus, not on vanquishing an enemy, but on rebuilding societies. Still, these U.N. operations often involve some military presence, and forces are still necessary both for general security and for providing occasional muscle...
Dowling allegedly suggested that he could find Diaz another job in the University, perhaps in custodial work, where the immigrant from El Salvador could "be with his own kind." Dowling has denied making the comment, and the University, the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission all ruled against Diaz when he appealed his case to them...
...classic Maya empire, the Maya themselves are all around them. An estimated 1.2 million Maya still live in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and nearly 5 million more are spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and the cities and rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know the ignominious fate of the Maya's modern-day descendants...
Sandra M. Canas came to Cambridge from El Salvador when her son Miguel was four years...
...choosing Thomas Pickering to be ambassador to Russia, President Clinton signaled the priority he gives to dealing with Moscow. Few diplomats are as qualified to take on a tough post: Pickering has served as ambassador to Israel and El Salvador...