Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Allende is here!" shouted the thousands who gathered to witness the reburial of a former President. In a government-sanctioned ceremony, the remains of Salvador Allende Gossens were moved from a family plot to Santiago's central cemetery, alongside Chile's other past presidents. A Marxist who tried to introduce radical reform, Allende died, reputedly a suicide, as troops stormed the presidential palace during a 1973 coup that led to 16 years of military rule. Current President Patricio Aylwin, who supported Allende's ouster but quickly tired of rule by the generals, was faint in his praise of Allende...
...without making some damningly racist assumptions. And rectifying the injustices of our grandfathers is no easy task, least of all in a country made up of refugees and immigrants and minorities of one, many of whom have lived through the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge, the unending atrocities of El Salvador. Sympathy cannot be legislated any more than kindness...
...over the outlines of countries and land masses (the northern edge of the Soviet Union is particularly nettlesome) until they get them right. Creative use of mnemonics helps. "Beware of hot gorillas eating nitrates casually, pop" is code for the Central American countries of Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Smith leavens the work load with games like geography baseball, in which a home-run problem might be: name the 15 Soviet republics. Later in the year, it would become: name each of their capitals. Slowly, the contours of the world come into focus...
...illegal contra supply operation or may have misled Congress. A prime target is Donald Gregg, an adviser to Vice President Bush who is now ambassador to South Korea. In 1985 and 1986 Gregg's friend Felix Rodriguez played a central role in running the contra arms flights from El Salvador. Gregg has testified that he knew nothing about Rodriguez's contra involvement until August 1986. However, both Gregg's secretary and Rodriguez have said the Bush staff knew about Rodriguez's role by May 1986, when Gregg arranged a meeting between Bush and Rodriguez. The day before the meeting...
...group up the street, for Blood to fight Blood. There were 462 gang-related murders in 1988, 107 of them in South Central, a 43-sq.-mi. stretch of ghetto with a population of 500,000. Though the murder rate does not approach the carnage of Beirut or El Salvador on a per capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Watts, because there they can get 24-hour-a-day experience treating the kind...