Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...driven from their homes by the increased cross-border shelling, and many of them are now committed to their own kind of limbo -- living in one-room shacks, unsettled by the fighting yet hardly supported by the government. All around are further casualties of war. In the sunbaked border town of Danli, the local coffee-growers' association estimates that its members have lost $15 million in four years. The farm owners have seen their land destroyed and their workers discouraged. "I am down from 30 workers to eight," complains Antonio Eraso, the group's president, "and now some...
...Washington currently has only 750 troops on Honduran soil in a constantly fluctuating rotation that sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions of war will continue, with none of the ready solutions. "No one feels completely secure," says Victor Meza, a political analyst at the Honduran...
...away." It was hard withholding the news because she "wanted to share it so badly with someone." Finally, on Sunday night, Dorothy Droll, Rita Ratchen's best friend for 35 years, came to visit, and Rita said, "Dorothy, I want to show you something." They drove out of town about two miles and parked on the shoulder of the road by the Fostoria Country Club. Rita pointed to the tank across the highway, and Dorothy "saw it immediately. So I said, 'Oh boy, two kooks...
...after considerable level-headed cogitation -- "I'm a skeptic, O.K.?" Carl says. "I'm not a very religious person, but you can't let that affect your coverage" -- the editor decided to go with the story. His front-page banner headline: IMAGE OF CHRIST REPORTED WEST OF TOWN. "What many people have said appears to be an image of Christ can be seen just west of Fostoria . . . Those who have contacted or have been contacted by the Review Times say the image can be seen when it's dark, around 9:30 p.m. or later, from the area between...
...picked up the piece and moved it on the wire. All of a sudden Carl Hunnel's phone began to ring ceaselessly as the press at home and abroad smelled a newsworthy aberration, always the cause of a stampede, especially in August, when Presidents are on holiday. Fostoria, a town of 17,000 that until Rita Ratchen's sighting was best known for the Fostoria Shade & Lamp Co., a fine glassworks that burned in 1895, went under the glare of world attention. "Yes," the Review Times wrote on Aug. 21, "Fostoria...