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...political murder rocked El Salvador last week. Herbert Anaya Sanabria, 33, president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission, was about to drive two of his children to school last week when two men approached him. Armed with revolvers, they shot him dead, then fled in a pickup truck. President Jose Napoleon Duarte suggested that leftists may have fired the shots to sabotage peace talks, but most Salvadorans assumed that a right-wing death squad was responsible. Leftist rebels broke off peace talks on the ground that they would "contribute to the creation of false hopes." The rebels did not, however...
...contras' civilian leaders are seeking their own accommodation with a peace process that until now has largely excluded them. Last week three civilian leaders, including Alfonso Robelo, visited the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose to request passports for a return home. It was mainly a propaganda ploy, and the request was refused, but that may soon change. "On Nov. 5, or maybe a few days before," predicts a State Department official, "the Sandinistas will announce they will meet with the contras." Indeed, Managua is filled with rumors that some sort of compromise will be announced after Ortega returns from Moscow...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, William F. Ewald, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, Stefan Kanfer, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Robert T. Zintl...
Silva and Vieira were tried separately from Raposo, Cordeiro and two other men, Jose Medeiros and Virgilio Medeiros. The Medeiroses, who are not related, were acquitted of all charges in the rape, which occurred March 6, 1983 at Big Dan's tavern...
Martens, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, threw in the towel after it became clear that his four-party, bilingual governing coalition was about to dissolve. The issue: what to do about Jose Happart, the acting mayor of Les Fourons, a small French-speaking town in Dutch-speaking Flanders. Happart refuses to take a Dutch-language competency test to prove his compliance with a law requiring that public officials conduct business in the language of ^ their regions. French speakers reject the Flemish court ruling that introduced the competency tests; Dutch speakers want Happart removed from office...