Word: sebasti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead fliers were identified as Agustín Roman, a Nicaraguan who once worked for Aeronica, and Sebastián Muller, an air force deserter. Nicaraguan authorities said that flight plans and other documents found in the wreckage showed that the two aircraft had taken off from a small airport near San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern...
...learned that he was a distant relative of the mansion's owner. Others say that he was shot because he refused to open the door, or because the rebels wanted him for something he had done in another village. "It was an accident," insists the village priest, Father Sebastián. But no one really knows. All that remains is three small holes in a door...
...garden rather than the village cemetery. The truth? A sign of fear? A sign of sympathy with the guerrillas? Such questions provoke an act of sign language on the part of villagers: a right hand held to the side of the face while the lips remain resolutely sealed. Father Sebastián, for example, shows off his garden and points to a mango tree riddled with bullet holes and grenade fragments. How had it happened? He smiles and gives the sign of silence...
This month the bishops of the Basque cities of Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria said as much in a pastoral letter that warned of the "coercive pressures" of the military on individual liberty. The three prelates condemned ETA's continuing terrorism, but they also cautioned that the military's new role in the Basque country could eventually pose a threat to democracy. "When the armed forces set themselves up as judge over the democratic process and feel tempted to intervene," they wrote, "this constitutes a serious danger rather than a genuine defense of the interests...