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...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...
...covering the mujahedin. Whereas the slaying of a network cameraman in Samoza's Nicaragua made front page headlines a few years ago, Thornton's slaying was hardly mentioned in the U.S. news media. Imagine the stories which would have reported Thornton's slaying had he been killed in El Salvador or South Africa...
...controversial movement got its start at Fife's Southside Church on the second anniversary of the assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador. The archbishop, because of his bold advocacy of the poor in his country, was gunned down in 1980 while saying Mass in San Salvador. Since then, Sanctuary has drawn support from various religious bodies, including American Baptists, Presbyterians, United Methodists and the United Church of Christ. The movement has also been endorsed by Conservative Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly. Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these...
...mainstream opinion, first expounded by former Harvard professor Samuel E. Morrison in his 1946 biography of Columbus, holds that Columbus landed on a large South Bahamas island, originally called Watlings Island but renamed San Salvador in honor of its historical role...
Beleagured San Salvador has found a champion in the shape of North Arizona University archaeologist Charles Hoffman, who has been conducting a dig near the alleged landing site. So far Hoffman has found a Spanish coin dating from approximately 1474, broken Spanish crockery, belt buckles, and ship planking nails...