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...oligarchs, determined to retain historic power, to harden then-resistance to change. Ironically, while Nicaragua itself has been able to make considerable headway in consolidating its revolution-peacefully, thus far -a spiral of terrorist violence has escalated elsewhere. Lawless gunmen of both the left and right have brought El Salvador and Guatemala to the brink of civil war with an orgy of killings...
...SALVADOR. The Nicaraguan example directly influenced the coup that last October toppled El Salvador's own dictator, General Carlos Humberto Romero. In a desperate attempt to pre-empt a San-dinista-style revolution-with Washington's encouragement-a group of moderate military officers seized power. Then, in an effort to satisfy peasant expectations and calm labor unrest, the five-man military-civilian junta made its own attempt at reform. It expropriated some large estates and nationalized the core of the country's banking system...
Ever since they took over, the Sandinistas have demonstrated a surprising restraint of their own. They have so far shown little inclination to intervene in such volatile neighboring countries as Guatemala and El Salvador. On the domestic front as well, the Sandinistas have exhibited a degree of moderation that has belied their Marxist slogans. Their strongest efforts appear to have been devoted to a remarkable teaching campaign that has reduced illiteracy from 50% to about...
...Mass near the mouth of the Amazon, the white-robed celebrant blessed pythons, tortoises and wild boars. During a motorcade through the city of Salvador on Brazil's coast, crowds threw flowers, danced sambas and fired off skyrockets. Some Brazilians spent hours in drenching rain or under a blazing sun just for a glimpse of Pope John Paul II. As in Zaïre last May, the papal pandemonium also produced tragedy; three people were trampled to death and 30 injured during a stampede into a stadium in Fortaleza...
...bridge-building gestures toward them. In Recife, John Paul warmly-and publicly-embraced Archbishop Hélder Cámara, 71, detested by the conservative military regime for his advocacy of peasant rights; Dom Hélder had not been seen on Brazilian television in eight years. In Salvador, the Pope issued a blunt warning to Latin America's rulers: "The realization of justice in this continent presents a clear dilemma: either it will be done through profound and courageous reform, according to principles that express the supremacy of human dignity, or it will occur-but without lasting results...