Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's changing sanctuary policy may well run afoul of Congress. "I think it is unfair as hell to permit blanket asylum for Nicaraguans and not for Salvadorans," protested Arizona's Democratic Senator , Dennis DeConcini. He has a bill pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee that would give Salvadoran refugees the same status as that being considered for Nicaraguans...
...away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their hamlet a sort of demilitarized zone in the six- year-old Salvadoran civil...
...following trends at other sanctuary churches and support groups across the country, local groups at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square have been hit by at least seven burglaries in the past 18 months. The break-ins at the Massachusetts Ave. church, which harbors a Salvadoran refugee and houses several groups opposing U.S. policies in Central America, have prompted growing fears among activists that they are the targets of an active intimidation campaign by either the government or right-wing organizations...
...national university was closed by the Salvadoran government in 1980 because of its support of the guerilla opponents of the Jose Napoleon Duarte government which still holds power. El Salvador's military destroyed buildings, burned libraries and sold the university's equipment before allowing it to reopen in 1984, said Calvin...
...church where the group stored the supplies houses an El Salvadoran refugee...