Word: salvadore
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...earlier epochs has known such sweeping and dynamic changes. Social change is literally knocking at the doors of the most ossified tyrannical regimes before our very eyes. In Latin America this is evidenced conclusively by the collapse of the dictatorship in Nicaragua ... the people's movement in El Salvador, the growing will of all nations of the continent toward independence and freedom. The United States wishes to oppose these changes by its "rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy unpalatable to it. This is a dangerous line. Indeed, is it the Cuban teachers schooling...
...Central America condemns the Harvard administration's singling out of these two individuals. They were part of a protest in fundamental opposition to the policies and actions of Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and the Reagan administration--policies that have resulted in the death of 40,000 civilians in El Salvador since 1980, and in the invasion of the sovereign nation of Grenada a short time before Weinberger spoke...
...roads leading north, south and east were closed because of fighting. Finally the frustrated Mattison decided to walk some ten miles to the Israeli lines with the week's work of six photographers. Mattison is no stranger to the hazards of war: he covered vicious combat in El Salvador for three years. But, he says of the gauntlet he ran last week, "There were nervous troops from three different militias and the Lebanese Army in the area. There was mortar and sniper fire all around. At one particularly bad moment on the way south, a Lebanese Army trooper shot...
...five-country tour of Latin America and the Caribbean last week, the important thing was that, for once, something other than a geopolitical crisis was on the horizon. The theme behind most of the stopovers on Shultz's itinerary was democratic transition. Taken together, the visits - to El Salvador, Venezuela, Brazil, Grenada and Barbados - emphasized a hemispheric watershed. Authoritarian rule in the Americas has been gradually descending from its zenith...
They don't want a return to Yankee unilateralism or intervention." In each of his initial stops last week, Shultz tried to tailor his diplomatic role to the prevailing circumstances. During a seven-hour stay in El Salvador, the Secretary emphasized the Administration's firm support for the March 25 presidential election, which Washington views as a crucial step in ending the country's civil war. Helicoptering with his entourage into the capital of San Salvador (in unmarked troop carriers seconded from the U.S. forces on maneuvers in neighboring Honduras), Shultz was the guest of Provisional President...