Word: salvador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cease-fire was declared, but it is doing so in Bosnia. In Somalia the Security Council took the unprecedented step of approving the current U.S. military intervention to provide protection for food distribution, even though the U.N. had received no official invitation. When the two sides in El Salvador's civil war could not agree on a land-distribution plan that was crucial to a peace accord, the U.N. proposed its own scheme. In Cambodia the U.N. has a broader -- and, many say, more trying -- charge than in any other operation it has mounted...
Barnes claimed to have worked at various times for the CIA, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration. In April 1982, he said U.S. advisers in El Salvador were poisoning streams and experimenting with chemical warfare. Two years later, he surfaced in the case of Ronald Rewald, a Hawaiian banker who was in jail at the time facing fraud charges in connection with the collapse of his investment firm. Rewald had also provided cover for the CIA, and said the agency had engineered his troubles. In September 1984, ABC News reported Barnes' claim that the CIA helped...
...amnesty law prevents any of the perpetrators from having to serve time for political crimes. They would also welcome the final dissolution of the notorious battalion, as was stipulated under the current peace plan signed by both the government and the rebels last January. But the San Salvador government has indefinitely suspended the battalion's disbanding, claiming the F.M.L.N. has yet to demobilize its troops according to the schedule. The former rebels claim that despite advances in political, police and land reform, they will not meet the Oct. 31 disarmament deadline because judicial and electoral reforms are lagging, and rebel...
...their dues and can now use jobs, wives or children as excuses for not hanging out with the homeboys. But most younger gang members have nowhere to fade away to. Meanwhile, gang bangers are notorious for overreacting at the smallest perceived slight. "You got to earn your respect," says Salvador Nevarez, 23, who joined the Disciples at 13 but married two years ago and now works as a salesman for Montgomery Ward in Chicago. "There is no such thing as ever getting out. You just drift away." Nevarez is well into his ninth life. "I had a lot of shoot...
Barcelona was the place where Picasso studied, where Salvador Dali grew up, and out of whose deeply conservative traditions of family and rural life Joan Miro, Catalunya's greatest painter since the 14th century, was able to fashion an art of the most radical poetry. And the best buildings constructed anywhere in Spain between 1860 and the outbreak of World War I were all in Catalunya, and mostly in Barcelona. The combined talents of its turn-of-the-century architects made it La Ciudad de los Prodigios, or the City of Marvels, as the Catalan writer Eduardo Mendoza titled...