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...hold the elections and made a strong appeal for unity to those who had criticized it. "The importance of the country's integrity and independence is higher than any movement, or any of us," she said. "To permit a few their way is to see the country torn apart...
...torn El Salvador poses the greatest security problems for the Pope. The government has turned down the Vatican's call for a cease-fire while John Paul is in the country. As it is, the Pope will have to make peace within the church. Conservative supporters of the government fear that he is coming to make a plea for "dialogue" with the rebels, while some proponents of liberation theology see the Pontiff as a friend of the ruling "oligarchy." Caught in the middle is Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, the temporary administrator of the Archdiocese in the capital city...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...
February 19, 5:00 p.m.-An unknown person or persons broke into a first-floor apartment at the Soldiers Field Park apartment complex. An outside screen was torn and an unlocked window was found open. The apartment was not disturbed, and the only item missing is a printing calculator valued...
...faded ribbons entangled with wilted leaves and a torn flag, once black but now faded to a blotchy purple, are the only mementos left at the mass grave site inside the entrance to Shatila camp. Children on their way home from school skip across the weed-covered burial ground, looking for bits of refuse that can serve as toys. They seem ignorant or uncaring of the fact that beneath their feet lie the bodies of some 200 of the estimated 700 people slaughtered during those 38 grim hours last fall...