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...also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what it will take to get it done." Despite a well-documented left-of- center tilt (during his House years he could be spied reading Salvadoran dissident novels on the subway), Stephanopoulos is untainted in the ideological wars that sometimes split the Administration. "He has an agenda, but with Clinton, he's reached the top and is going to insure that he serves his master," says an observer. Of his loyalty, another quantifies the accepted wisdom...
...Mormons live outside the U.S. A diversity of one culture quickly becomes a diversity of many: the "typical American" who goes to Japan today may be a third-generation Japanese American, or the son of a Japanese woman married to a California serviceman, or the offspring of a Salvadoran father and an Italian mother from San Francisco. When he goes out with a Japanese woman, more than two cultures are brought into play...
...Expressions of a Universal Soul," by Carlo Mejia, Salvadoran contemporary artist. Dudley House Common Room. Reception to meet the artist...
...haunted by not one but two ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips as Robicheaux's adopted Salvadoran daughter and pet three-legged raccoon, named Tripod, and one has a gumbo to clog any narrative. It doesn't, because Burke writes prose as moody and memory-laden as his region...
...evidence says Salvadoran soldiers killed tens of thousands of people during the 12-year civil war. Yet only one senior military officer has ever been convicted in a human-rights case. Under the new amnesty law, even that won't stick. The government has released Colonel Guillermo Benavides, previously sentenced to 30 years for the 1989 slayings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Amnesty will also prevent future trials for those accused of wartime excesses, including Defense Minister Rene Emilio Ponce, accused of planning the murders...