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More significant, the enthusiastic turnout provoked a near invisible response from the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). Thoroughly unsuccessful last March in their efforts to bully and intimidate voters away from the polls, the guerrillas hardly tried to block last week's runoff. Their disruptive...
Death gangs run by the security forces are more visible in the countryside, where, as in Metalio, they can brutalize an entire town. Rivas and his men allegedly don civilian clothes and masks before conducting a nighttime hit, while other times they show up at a house in broad daylight...
Outside Panama City's Legislative Palace, where votes were being counted, Arias' backers clashed with supporters of Nicolás ("Nicky") Ardito Barletta, 45, the candidate of the military-backed National Democratic Union. Throughout the night, roving gangs from both sides barricaded downtown streets, looting shops and burning...
Scattered grass-roots attempts to aid black families also seem hopeful. In Los Angeles, Dr. James Mays, a black physician, has set up an adopt-a-family program: each of 200 enrolled families is being provided with legal, medical and other services by a volunteer group. Washington recently put 40...
The sequence of events that led to the disaster began last November. Sotelo, then a $35-a-week hospital electrician with a family of three, took a milk bottle-size, stainless-steel canister from the hospital's warehouse. Sotelo says hospital administrators had given him permission to sell leftover...