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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Jesuit energies are directed at a multitude of causes, from agitating against dictatorships in Africa to championing the cause of India's downtrodden untouchables. The prominence of Jesuits in social change has been underlined in Latin America, where just a year ago six activist Jesuit educators in El Salvador, together with two female helpers, were brutally assassinated. The Jesuit Refugee Service labors with less attention in 75 camps that harbor 1.5 million people. There are also numerous unheralded individual heroes, like Thomas Fitzpatrick, a missionary whose financial acumen helped get food and medicine to the right places during Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Making Up with the Jesuits | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...past year, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been itching for a rematch with El Salvador's U.S.-trained armed forces. Last year thousands of FMLN fighters nearly overran the capital, San Salvador, before the army's superior firepower inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels. Last week the FMLN launched a minioffensive in 10 of the country's 14 departments but scored no major victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Fight Today, Talk Tomorrow | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Dianne Feinstein, but also California congressional races and ballot initiatives. To do so, he teamed up with correspondent Jeanne McDowell and senior correspondent Edwin Reingold, who spent 11 years as Tokyo bureau chief, as well as photographer P.F. Bentley, a veteran of political campaigns in Haiti, Panama and El Salvador in addition to the U.S. The team's foreign experience gave it a rare perspective on U.S. politicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 19 1990 | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard is part of the liberal establishment. When Harvard says stop aid to El Salvador, people in Washington hear that. Students participate in a broader movement. We're not isolated," said John G. Donaghy...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: COCA Recalls Killings; 75 Attend Widener Vigil | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

...post-cold war world makes many nostalgic for the days when the goal of foreign policy was easy to delineate--stop the Soviets. But the rigidity of containment and its variants dictated U.S. involvement in Vietnam and in El Salvador and guaranteed a U.S.-Soviet arms race. A new case-by-case policy is exactly what the State Department needs...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Finally, Hope in Southeast Asia | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

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