Word: salvadors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago I had all my worst nightmares realized when I came home late one night to find that I had been "ordered for induction to the Armed Forces of the United States for service in El Salvador." Having been following developments in the region closely, I had to take a deep breath at the prospect of spending my weekend on the way to boot camp. Although everyone assured me that the notice wasn't real, I still felt compelled to call Senator Kerry's office to make sure--after all, no one wants to take any chances when...
Almost everyone at Harvard has an issue that, for one reason or another, is of deep concern: abortion, capital punishment, homelessness, Palestinian deportation, El Salvador. Many groups have been formed to raise awareness about these issues, and some have been more successful than others. Apparently, however, the plethora of groups involved in tabling, postering, organizing meetings and holding rallies has made it increasingly difficult to grab the average student's attention. Because of this fact, COCA took the attention-grabbing step of placing falsified draft notices with a forged signature of Senator Kerry in the mailboxes of 900 undergraduate...
WORLD: Rebels in El Salvador besiege a hotel...
...fatigues for civilian clothes and merging into the population. Equally unsettling to the Cristiani government, as well as to Washington, is that thousands of Salvadoran residents have collaborated with the rebels. A U.S. Administration official admitted last week that "there was a torrent of arms and ammunition" into San Salvador. Said he: "That couldn't have taken place had not a lot of people helped, or at the minimum, kept quiet...
Future U.S. relations with El Salvador will be strongly influenced by how the Cristiani government handles the investigation into the killing of the six Jesuits. It has become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of seeing as many as 30 men in olive-drab uniforms enter the priests' residence, and one woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown...