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...really knows what's going on This coup was totally unexpected and people in Washington seem very much surprised," Said Sally shelton, a fellow at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and formerly deputy assistant secretary of state for Latin America. "All attention has been focused as of late on El Salvador because of next Sunday's elections there...
...ranged from superb to poor to just plain awful. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, as the CIA'S attention shifted to Southeast Asia and Washington relied more on space-age technology than undercover agents, intelligence operations in Central America deteriorated. In 1973 U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Turner Shelton consistently underplayed the opposition to President Anastasio Somoza in his reports home, thus blinding Washington to the signs of rising turmoil. Complains one U.S. specialist on Central American affairs: "Too often [our] ambassadors in the region felt it was their job to play poker with dictators...
...first-year law student. David Shelton '80, was found dead in his Boston apartment Tuesday night. The causes surrounding his death having not been released, pending the completion of a medical examiner's report, although suicide is suspected...
...Shelton had also tried unsuccessfully to organize local taxi cab drivers and drove a cab part-time himself
Before graduating from Horace Mann in 1976. Shelton founded an annual softball marathon that still raises several thousand dollars a year for cancer research. He also did volunteer work for the World Hunger Organization...