Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, only weeks after the first residents returned home in late January, the fragile peace was shattered. Army troops tangled with a guerrilla unit on the outskirts of town, leaving three rebels dead. The troops then advanced into Tenancingo firing M-16 rifles and grenade launchers. The soldiers searched homes, detained and interrogated inhabitants, and killed at least one unarmed civilian. A postmortem by directors of the Tenancingo project and human rights officials blamed both sides for the breakdown: the guerrillas for breaching the agreement by maintaining a near constant presence in the town, the army for treating the civilians...
...thus a prime candidate for the army's newest counterinsurgency campaign, "United to Reconstruct," which calls for repopulating evacuated war zones with civilians who will be organized into "patriotic self-defense militias." Some people connected with the Tenancingo project predict it is only a matter of time before their town is made a part of the army's campaign...
...fighting, several families left Tenancingo. Within days, however, all had returned and a few new families had even joined the effort. "We are fine," says Demetrio Archila, 45. "The planes come by, they look at us, but they let us keep working. Now they don't bomb in the town, only outside it." That may be a small achievement, but it presents a ray of hope for many Salvadorans. "We don't need bombs or projectiles," says one townsman."We just want to be left alone. We hate this damned...
...into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
Then, having paid tribute to the dead, the politicians went into town to assert the continued resurrection of the opposition movement. As the leaders took the podium at the local Y.M.C.A., 3,000 supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four...