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...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...
...addition to $1000 in checks, the group has collected textbooks, lab equipment, typewriters, paper, pens and copy machines for the university, which supports El Salvadoran rebels, said organizer Douglas A. Calvin, a sophomore at the the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
...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...