Word: war-torn
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...sort of assassination that has become a terrifying commonplace in war-torn El Salvador. One evening last January, two American labor lawyers, Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, were having dinner in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel with José Rodolfo Viera head of the country's controversial land reform program. Suddenly, two men armed with automatic pistols walked into the dining room and opened fire, killing the three men, then turned and unperturbedly walked out. Like thousands of other killings, these seemed destined to go unsolved. Last week, almost four months after the murders, there appeared...
...heavily fortified base at Rundu, .50-cal. machine guns were aimed across the Okavango River. They were trained on a deserted, war-torn Angolan village on the other side. Both SWAPO guerrillas and villagers had long since retreated into the bush, out of range of South African fire...
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ago, the ruling regime in El Salvador executed yet another move to repress all avenues of dissent in the tiny war-torn country: It arrested almost all University deans and professors, rounded up every student suspected of sympathizing with the leftist guerrillas and carted them off to detention centers. As anyone familiar with the policies of Duarte's regime knows, many of these professors and students were undoubtably murdered outright; others are being tortured...
...first martyred female FSLN comandante, and aims to "transform, little by little, the situation of margination and backwardness of the Nicaraguan women." According to Silvia Reyes, and AMNLAE leader, that means helping women to deal with machismo in personal relationships, and to use economic and political potential to rebuild war-torn Nicaragua...
...sings. She dances. She plays the piano, plunks the guitar, pumps the accordion. She recently won raves for two movies, Siberiada and Five Evenings. Now Actress Lyudmila Gurchenko, 44, is an author acclaimed for her autobiography, published in a literary monthly, about growing up in war-torn Kharkov. The muse moved her while she and film friends watched Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon. "They kept saying how marvelous the Tatum O'Neal character was. So I said, 'Listen, guys, I was the same type of child, only I grew up with German troops and hunger and death...