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...would be a betrayal to even think of finishing the Sagrada Familia . . . without genius. Let it remain there, like a huge rotting tooth." -- Catalan painter Salvador Dali...
Just before he angrily resigned as Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze went out of his way to help his friend James Baker with a problem in Central America. The Secretary of State suspected that leftist guerrillas in El Salvador had acquired sophisticated Soviet SA-7 and SA-14 shoulder-held antiaircraft missiles to use against the U.S.-backed government. Baker gave his counterpart a photo of a seized launching tube, and Shevardnadze promised to investigate. In their last meeting in Houston, Shevardnadze informed Baker that the missiles were part of a shipment sent to Nicaragua in 1986. Armed with that...
...helicopter was hit by rebel ground fire about 75 miles east of San Salvador. The F.M.L.N. said all three crewmen died from injuries suffered when the chopper crashed. But area residents claim that the rebels ordered them to drag out two of the Americans, alive and begging for water. At first they said both died for lack of medical attention, but later suggested they were shot. In Washington officials said autopsy reports showed that two of the crew were killed with gunshots to the head. Both sides have motives for fudging the facts. The rebels do not want to upset...
Today Jesuit energies are directed at a multitude of causes, from agitating against dictatorships in Africa to championing the cause of India's downtrodden untouchables. The prominence of Jesuits in social change has been underlined in Latin America, where just a year ago six activist Jesuit educators in El Salvador, together with two female helpers, were brutally assassinated. The Jesuit Refugee Service labors with less attention in 75 camps that harbor 1.5 million people. There are also numerous unheralded individual heroes, like Thomas Fitzpatrick, a missionary whose financial acumen helped get food and medicine to the right places during Ethiopia...
...past year, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front has been itching for a rematch with El Salvador's U.S.-trained armed forces. Last year thousands of FMLN fighters nearly overran the capital, San Salvador, before the army's superior firepower inflicted heavy casualties on the rebels. Last week the FMLN launched a minioffensive in 10 of the country's 14 departments but scored no major victories...