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...unjust regime would be toppled; a brutal embargo would be lifted. What's more, say some experts, this is the first -- and most essential -- step toward getting Haiti on its feet. "There is no way to govern without restoring President Aristide," says Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. "So, regrettable as it is, military intervention is less regrettable than the U.N., U.S. and Organization of American States losing out to a bunch of uniformed gangsters...
...often, politics dictate immigration policy," Hernandez said. "In the '80s, we allowed anyone defecting from the Soviet Union in under political asylum while turning away refugees from Nicaragua and El Salvador for being economic refugees...
Recent immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and elsewhere, even those cast into the tent camps, declared fatalistically that they had no intention of moving away. On the other hand, psychologist Michael Gellert noted that many longtime residents had heard so much about the danger that they took earthquakes for granted. When the possibility became real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup...
...hours later, the L.A. city fire department can finally save someone. Firemen extract maintenance worker Salvador Pena from a street sweeper he was operating in the now collapsed garage of the Northridge mall, not far from the Meadows. Some slabs of concrete are airlifted off him; others are pushed away with a huge inflatable bladder. The process takes about four hours; then he is free. His legs are crushed, but he will survive. Says a fireman: "It feels so good...
...SALVADOR. A two-year-old peace is threatened by a new outbreak of killings attributed to right-wing death squads; about two dozen leftists have been murdered since the war ended...