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...Florida, Perry Rivkind, the district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he would not deport citizens from Nicaragua who seek political asylum in the U.S. In Arizona, the Justice Department wound up its prosecution of eleven church workers accused of smuggling aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala into the U.S. -- even though these illegal immigrants also claimed that they feared persecution in their home countries...
...Salvador's military command has long been suspected of shielding officers from charges of involvement in the death squads that carried out tens of thousands of kidnapings and killings. But the code of silence has broken down since police cracked a ring that kidnaped wealthy people and held them for ransom. Among those under arrest is Rodolfo Lopez Sibrian, a former national guard lieutenant who was accused, but never convicted, of ordering the execution of two American landreform specialists and a Salvadoran colleague...
Citing the United Nations charter, Moore said Cuban and Nicaraguan action in E1 Salvador "constituted armed attack" and that "article 51 allows fighting back in self-defense...
...grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their hamlet a sort of demilitarized zone in the six- year...
When the city declared itself a sanctuary for Central American refugees exactly one year ago, Cambridge attracted nationwide attention for its decision to join a growing movement to grant sanctuary to refugees from El Salvador, Haiti, and Guatemala. But since then, the thrust of the local sanctuary movement has shifted to several community groups quietly working to keep the idea alive in Cambridge: from the year-long effort to harbor a refugee in a local church to this week's shipment of supplies to a university in El Salvador...