Word: zamora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three female freshmen were late getting to bed, and lay for a time in their darkened dorm room at the U.S. Naval Academy, murmuring of their loves and dreams. Diane Zamora spoke of her boyfriend, David Graham, a handsome, clean-cut freshman at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, whose photo nearby gazed upon the trio. "He'll always be faithful," Zamora said, "because I'll always have something on him." "Oh? What did you do? Kill somebody?" a roommate asked. Several long seconds of silence ensued, followed by more questions and then a confession. As her roommates told...
Moyers might well have drawn more telling responses from a group that ranges from well-established poets like Sandra McPherson, Robert Bly and Adrienne Rich to such lesser-known practitioners as Daisy Zamora, Sekou Sundiata and Coleman Barks. But by ignoring specifics--by avoiding the poet's daily business of weighing word against word--he finally divorces most of the poets from their poems. Ideally, when the poet sits down to write he or she is claiming a kinship, however collateral, with Dickinson and Donne, Chaucer and Virgil. What Moyers too often gives us is the poem as self-therapy...
...inherent lack of autonomy in a military job also sets the stage for abuse. "It's all about control," says Cindy Zamora, the wife of an Army tanker. She now lives in a shelter for battered women in Killeen, Texas, just outside huge Fort Hood. She moved there after her husband bit her, beat her and threatened her with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted...
...will function any better united than it does when bloodily riven. Poverty, social inequality, overreliance on U.S. financial handouts, simmering disputes over land and ideology, and a choking residue of hatred from the war all conspire against success in rebuilding the shattered land. Says National Assembly Vice President Ruben Zamora, who is close to the insurgents: "Peace generates huge expectations among the people that cannot possibly be met. The war was always the excuse for everything: no water, no electricity, no jobs. But the fact is, peace won't fix these problems...
...reduce the armed forces by half in the next two years. Cutting the military from its current strength of 60,000 may appease critics of El Salvador's bloody past. But Cristiani will be turning out into the streets trained killers with little prospect of finding legitimate employment. Says Zamora: "There will be a huge increase in violence, much like there was in Nicaragua. Many people will die." Zamora's idea is to offer the soldiers public welfare jobs like reforestation and environmental protection. But who will pay their salaries...