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Cristiani has also called for the 56,000-strong military to have a freer hand in defeating the guerrillas of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, who currently number about 6,000. Some Salvadorans fear such a strategy would mean ignoring a sizable increase in death-squad activities and other human-rights abuses. ARENA Founder Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major who ran against Duarte in the 1984 elections and has since yielded his party's leadership to Cristiani, has been linked by U.S. intelligence to the killer squads that ran amuck in the early 1980s...
Those shadowy units seem to be expanding their business again. Human-rights groups estimate that death-squad activity -- the kidnaping and killing by unidentified gunmen of civilians suspected of leftist sympathies -- has trebled since last year. One rights group, Tutela Legal, identified 24 undisputed death-squad killings in all of 1987; this year's toll stood at 21 by the end of April. (By comparison, Tutela counted 29 executions of civilians by the guerrillas in 1987, vs. 17 so far this year.) Most Salvadorans believe the upsurge in right-wing terrorism is the work of military men frustrated by their...
This year, the Crimson finished in third place in the Ivy League Tournament--just two points shy of the finals. The squad lost the deciding set to eventual champion Princeton...
While the 1988 squad fell just short of recapturing the Eastern title, a lot of that bitter feeling was erased by the strong performance of Bird and his teammates. Not only did the Crimson win more that individual titles than the Tigers, but it also outscored Princeton in the 16 swimming events...
...point came at the 1987 Eastern Championships, when Bird, then a junior, watched his team get overwhelmed by an emotional Princeton squad and drop its first Eastern meet in nine years...