Word: napoleons
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Cerezo in recent months has also become a prime mover in Central American efforts to find a negotiated settlement to the war in Nicaragua. Two days before De la Madrid arrived, President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador slipped unannounced into Santo Tomas, some 30 miles south of the capital, where Cerezo has a country retreat. The Duarte visit, which no doubt included discussion of the region's problems, was part of Cerezo's intricate diplomatic skein. Last month Cerezo met with President Daniel Ortega Saavedra in Nicaragua. The Sandinista leader reiterated his refusal to negotiate with the U.S.-backed...
During its upcoming, five-day trip, Freireich said the group will seek meetings with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, American Ambassador Edwin Corr and El Salvadoran military leaders. Members also plan to visit the village, gather testimony about the attack and report it at a press conference in San Salvador...
Nonetheless, the Paraiso attack, in which the guerrillas lost only ten of their men, was both a setback to President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democratic government and a reminder to the U.S. that shoring up democracies in Central America is neither cheap nor painless. Drawing further attention to the price of the U.S. involvement in the Salvadoran war, the CIA announced last week that one of its employees had been killed in a helicopter crash in the eastern part of the country. Though the CIA did not identify him, the dead man was believed to be Richard Krobock...
...prostitution offers the trappings of emotions without the genuine article, and perhaps it has endured for the reason that it touches all parts of the body but the heart. The practice of hiring substitute soldiers to take one's place in the military, common to the armies of Napoleon, Washington and the Czars, theoretically involved a transfer of patriotism. But patriotism proved untransferable. Ranks were filled with the poor who needed the pay or mere mercenaries, not citizens inspired with love of country. Armies suffered; the practice stopped...
Befitting his VIP status, Swaggart moves in lofty circles when he is abroad. In El Salvador, he met with President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who has confessed that he too watches the Swaggart TV show. In Chile, he met Dictator Augusto Pinochet and later urged his audience in Santiago to "pray for General Pinochet and his beautiful wife." Swaggart usually avoids overt politicking in his Latin American sermons and disclaims partisanship. But the Rev. Jaime Wright, a U.S. Presbyterian working in Brazil, agreeing with Roman Catholic critics, charges that Swaggart and like-minded Evangelicals are giving "uncritical support" to oppressive right...