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Each day brings a fresh batch of horror stories about the death squads. El Salvador's Human Rights Commission, a private organization, estimates that two-thirds of the killings were done by the right, though Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, a government critic, contends that slayings by the guerrillas are on the rise. One night last week, there was a knock at the door of a small house in the city of Santa Ana. Alida Fidelina Miranda de Escobar, 35, a kindergarten teacher, answered the door and was confronted by five masked gunmen. As her three young girls begged...
There were 10,000 violent deaths in El Salvador last year, and this year the total already tops 3,000. Tens of thousands of peasants have been forced to flee the countryside and settle in makeshift refugee camps in the larger cities and across the border in Honduras. As Father Manuel Torruella said in his homily at San Salvador Cathedral last Sunday, "It is sad to see our country destroyed. What will be left to a country as poor as ours after this? No matter who wins, what will we have left...
...Harvard Committee on El Salvador gave a petition protesting United States aid to EL Salvador--signed by almost 400 students--to Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.) Saturday, a committee organizer said yesterday...
...petition, presented to Tsongas at the Somerville High School, where he was presiding over a town meeting, demands that the U.S. "end all military and economic aid to the El Salvador junta...
...presented this petition to Tsongas to show there is a body here at Harvard that cares about what is going on in El Salvador," Greg A. Eckstrom '84, a member of the committee, said yesterday...