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...with older and more affluent voters and those in the South. He lags behind Carter among women, union members, blacks and other minorities. But Reagan does just as well as Carter among independents, and he has attracted the backing of one out of four Democratic voters. On the other hand, Reagan is not the first choice of a substantial number of Republicans and independents; 39% would prefer Gerald Ford. More than half of all voters think that Reagan is too conservative to attract enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidency, and most voters are concerned about his lack...
...just finished a eulogy, praising Romero as a "beloved, peacemaking man of God" and prophesying that "his blood will give fruit to brotherhood, love and peace." Suddenly, the outdoor funeral service in the center of El Salvador's capital was transformed into a tableau of horror: exploding hand bombs, wild gunfire, terrified crowds stampeding in panic. Before it was over, 35 people had been killed; 185 others had been hospitalized with serious injuries. "It was pure savagery against defenseless, humble people," lamented a mourner, Bishop Eamon Casey of Galway, Ireland. "There is something vile in this land. Very, very...
...most outspoken champion of nonviolence and human rights, shot dead during a Mass six days earlier by a lone assassin who was suspected of being an ultrarightist gunman. What turned the funeral into El Salvador's bloodiest episode this year was an explosion, either a genuine hand bomb or a "leaflet bomb" that flings handbills in the air. It occurred at the edge of Plaza Barrios where an estimated 50,000 mourners were gathered for the outdoor service for the archbishop. Armed leftist militants, primed for possible rightist provocation, apparently panicked at the blast and began firing wildly, sending...
...intensified as the crowd around me heaved forward and tried to surmount a 10-ft. steel picket fence," reported TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who found himself caught in the melee. "A woman trying to get over was partially impaled on one of the sharp spikes of the fence. My hand was pierced on another. Babies were being thrown over the fence to the relative safety of the other side. At the narrow entrance to the cathedral about a dozen women, most of them elderly, were being trampled...
...living than they would enjoy back home. "It's a struggle, and there are lots of frustrations," says Patty Hall, 21, wife of Airman Walter Hall of Norfolk. "We don't have the money to go out at all, and I wash all our clothes by hand because the base launderette is too expensive. But I wouldn't trade this life for anything." A number of wives do find work, often at U.S. bases...