Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lieut. Colonel Ricardo Aristides Cienfuegos, 40, chief spokesman for the Salvadoran armed forces, evidently felt he had nothing to fear at the exclusive International Sports Club in San Salvador. The officer, who had wanted to leave his desk job for a field assignment in the five-year-old civil war against leftist guerrillas, was relaxing last week beside a tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular...
Cienfuegos was the highest-ranking Salvadoran officer to be gunned down in the capital since the guerrilla conflict began. Almost two years ago, members of the F.P.L. took responsibility for the murder of U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger, an attache at the U.S. embassy. Informed of the Cienfuegos killing, President Jose Napoleon Duarte denounced the crime as part of a leftist policy of "urban destabilization...
...Kleberg County Airport, near Kingsville, Texas. Acting on a tip, U.S. Customs officials searched the aircraft and found nearly $6 million in $100 and $20 bills in the suitcases of one of the passengers. They arrested the owner of the luggage, Francisco Guirola Beeche, 34, a wealthy Salvadoran businessman, and his two companions. Guirola is a friend of Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing Salvadoran politician and foe of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The three men were later indicted in Corpus Christi, Texas, on charges of conspiring to transport undeclared currency...
...that Guirola planned to use the money to buy votes. In Washington, White House aides have leaked reports tying the money to drug deals. The campaign against d'Aubuisson could backfire if his supporters convince voters that the episode, including Guirola's arrest, amounts to gross U.S. interference in Salvadoran politics...
...West. I'd have children, a car and a diplomat husband. I'd visit Poland, East Germany . . . India. I wouldn't work ! and I'd eat like a queen." A journalist's son wanted to "travel throughout many different countries; for instance, it's nice to interview a (Salvadoran) freedom fighter in the shade of a palm tree." A second boy wrote, "I will be a pilot . . . and then the director of a trust just like Dad. I'll fly abroad and bring back presents." Another girl revealed that after she married a biologist, "we'd buy a piano...