Word: salvador
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...talking about behavior that is unbecoming of a diplomat." ZEHAVIT BEN-HILLEL Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson, on Tsuriel Raphael, Israel's ambassador to El Salvador, who was recalled after reportedly being found by police drunk, naked and wearing bondage gear in the yard of his embassy residence...
...Plan B if the surge strategy fails. According to Monday's Los Angeles Times, Pentagon officials are weighing the wisdom of pulling out combat forces and relying more on the training of Iraqi forces to extricate U.S. troops from Iraq. It could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved in the conflict themselves. Whatever policy the U.S. eventually endorses, Gates - unlike Rumsfeld - won't have to cast a nervous eye into his own rearview mirror and wonder...
...Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqué, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dalí, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...
...Saca, too, may be in hot water if it is determined that the three dead congressmen were themselves involved in drug trafficking. The murdered politicians, Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez, belonged to El Salvador's ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party, known as ARENA. All were members of the regional parliament, which has 132 members representing five of the seven Central American nations. Based in Guatemala City, the parliament, known by its Spanish acronym PARLACEN, has been mired in drug-trafficking scandals in recent years. In 2003 a Honduran member of the body was convicted of trafficking...
...interior minister of El Salvador, Rene Figueroa, who is collaborating on the Guatemalan investigation, is the vice president of the ARENA party and a personal friend of the murdered congressmen. He said at a press conference that his goal was to clear the name of the politicians. But such close connections have raised questions about the objectivity of any investigation that either government will be able to carry...