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Juan, a 20-year-old refugee from El Salvador, fled his country's violence last year after his older brother was killed by a rebel group. After a series of stops along the escape route from his country--including an arrest by immigration authorities in Texas--Juan arrived in Cambridge with his mother and sister...

Author: By Oded Salomy, | Title: Centro Presente: Giving Refugees a Headstart | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

Margarita, a 24-year old refugee camp worker, fled El Salvador when she felt her life was in danger. "To go in and out of the refugee camps is to become a sure target of the security forces or of the death squads," the native of San Jose de la Montana told local reporters last fall. After a visit with Cambridge public officials, Margarita joined Saul, Mario, and 14 other refugees in a 30-city tour of New England--a symbolic journey to protest this nation's immigration policies toward Central American aliens...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: ONE YEAR OF SANCTUARY IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. | 4/11/1986 | See Source »

...thousand and one things could happen between here and El Salvador, and it may not be safe for Americans to walk on the campus," he said...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Local Group Sends Aid to Salvadoran University | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...national university was closed by the Salvadoran government in 1980 because of its support of the guerilla opponents of the Jose Napoleon Duarte government which still holds power. El Salvador's military destroyed buildings, burned libraries and sold the university's equipment before allowing it to reopen in 1984, said Calvin...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Local Group Sends Aid to Salvadoran University | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...university is "a training ground for insurgency," said William B. Wood, State Department country officer for El Salvador...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Local Group Sends Aid to Salvadoran University | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

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