Word: salvadore
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...group of Boston-area college students and other activists yesterday loaded a truck with money and medical supplies to help rebuild the ravaged National University of El Salvador...
During the next week, the New England Central American Health Rights Network hopes to solicit from New England colleges another $18,000 worth of supplies to aid the university, which the U.S. government has denied aid arguing that it poses a threat to El Salvador's American-backed regime, organizers said...
Organizers said they plan to ship the supplies to El Salvador from Washington, D.C. next week. There will be U.S. citizens--perhaps college students--to ensure that the supplies arrive at the university, Calvin said...
...angel or a saint." Other loyalists were disgruntled that the new plan had been drawn up by a very small group of counselors working independently of the Cabinet. "I have strong reservations about this," protested Local Government Minister Aquilino Pimentel. "I was never consulted." Even Vice President Salvador Laurel was not fully involved in determining the contents of the final draft. Indeed, he had gone through a ceremony in which he assumed the prime ministership just four hours before the post was abolished, together with the entire Assembly...
...waters had only a little more to do with the actual reasons for sending ships across Gaddafi's line of death than rescuing American medical students did with invading Grenada in 1983; as pretexts go, it was about on a par with citing arms shipments to rebels in El Salvador in order to aid the contras in Nicaragua. Scoffed Senator Gary Hart of Colorado: "There is always some fig leaf being used...