Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former CIA director pleaded nolo contendere last October to two misdemeanor counts of failing to testify fully to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1973. His testimony concerned the intelligence agency s alleged efforts to block the election of the late Salvador Allende as president of Chile...
...Christ's nature based on Latin America's "liberation theology." The Maryknoll Fathers' Orbis Books will publish it in English in June as Christology at the Crossroads. Sobrino, a Jesuit and professor at the Universidad José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, says that Christians working for justice should realize that Jesus was mistaken in his social outlook because he expected the imminent appearance of the kingdom of God. In fact, he thinks that Jesus had to undergo a "conversion" in his views...
...Salvador will not choose another President until 1982, which, as many Salvadorians see it, is just as well. Before the rigged election that brought General Carlos Humberto Romero, 51, to power in 1977, more than a hundred people were slain by Romero's soldiers in campaign violence. Congressional elections are scheduled for next month, but the anti-Romero Christian Democratic Party has announced a boycott. Power, as a result, will remain in the hands of the soldiers and the few rich families that have wielded it for generations...
...Johnson knew of or supported assassination attempts against foreign leaders, such as the bizarre plan to supply poisoned cigars to Fidel Castro. L.B.J. approved Operation Phoenix, in which agents directed the killing of Viet Cong terrorists. In Chile, the CIA gave money and other help to opponents of Marxist Salvador Allende. But there is no evidence connecting the CIA to the coup that overthrew and killed Allende in 1973, though the episode gave the U.S. a black eye. The CIA'S surveillance of American citizens was grossly exaggerated by much of the press. One clear abuse by the agency, which...
...serving their needs. But Cambridge can tune in on Boston-based Radiolanda 1600, an AM station featuring Spanish-language broadcasting in the bombastic announcing style of stations in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cambridge Hispanics also play in Boston's amateur soccer league, where teams like Hispanos Unidos and El Salvador compete against other immigrant and domestic clubs, with the league standings published every Thursday in The Boston Globe...