Word: salvadoran
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Churches defy the law to give sanctuary to Salvadoran exiles...
...makeshift, third-floor apartment inside Seattle's University Baptist Church, a young woman refugee from El Salvador prepares for the birth of her baby, while down the hall a Salvadoran army deserter waits until he can flee to Canada. In Chicago's Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, a Salvadoran family of six lives above the gym. "If they make us go back," says the father, "we will disappear and die for certain...
...direct use of the university for the military training of the future butchers of workers and peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
...Administration now seems a shade more willing than in the past to go along with such pressure tactics, if only to get the Salvadoran army its money. Both sides recognize the real possibility that the leftists may not truly want to negotiate at all and that the U.S. cannot force the Salvadoran government to do so. State Department Spokesman John Hughes took an upbeat view of last week's congressional skirmishing. Said he: "This demonstrates a bipartisan consensus that the route to peace in Central America is through democracy and reforms behind a shield of military security...
...weeks Didion neither gets nor expects to get to the bottom of who is doing what to whom and why. She is clearly unsympathetic toward the Salvadoran government and skeptical about a U.S. policy that would polarize the region into extreme leftists and rightists. But Didion is no pundit. Her strength is in conveying atmosphere and her own sense of horror, although this is not always completely convincing. Seated one night on the porch of a restaurant with her writer husband, John Gregory Dunne, Didion notices a shadowy figure in a truck and a man with a rifle...