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...After Salvadoran Expatriate Frank Varelli became an FBI informant in Dallas in 1981, his tales of links between Marxist rebels and the U.S.-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador triggered a two-year nationwide surveillance of CISPES and nine other activist groups. But FBI Director William Sessions told Congress last week that much of Varelli's story turned out not to be true, and the CISPES probe involved serious "mistakes in judgment...
Ravaged by cancer, reviled by many of his countrymen, Jose Napoleon Duarte ! refuses to give up. Since returning last month from the U.S., where doctors confirmed he is suffering from inoperable stomach cancer, the Salvadoran President has ignored physicians' orders to limit his work load to three hours a day; he routinely puts in seven or more. Last week he addressed the National Assembly, met with church and business leaders, and conferred with visiting Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. This week Duarte will return to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington to undergo chemotherapy, but he wants...
...Dirty Dancing, made some quick money. Next, Puerto Rican-born Raul Julia, one of the few Hispanics to work regularly and rewardingly on stage and screen, stars with Sonia Braga (Brazil) and Richard Dreyfuss (Brooklyn) in Moon over Parador, a satire about South America. Then Julia will play a Salvadoran archbishop in Romero. And Christmas brings The Old Gringo, from the Carlos Fuentes novel, with Jane Fonda and L.A. Law's Jimmy Smits. Fonda, who calls herself a "premature Latinian," spent eight years preparing the drama, set on "this scar of a border we share...
Prior to Monday night's meeting, six Councillors spoke at a vigil outside City Hall protesting the bombing of Cambridge's sister city in El Salvador, San Jose las Flores. Helicopter units of the El Salvadoran army attacked the village on April 27, according to David Grosser, chairman of the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project...
...Jose las Flores asked the city for support, and since March of that year, Cambridge has sent at least two official delegations to El Salvador. Another is planned for this June, Grosser said. The sister city organization has raised $5000 for medicines and construction materials for the Salvadoran village...