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Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...airport. Twenty minutes before the plane's expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the ancient site of Mycenae, an explosion shook the aircraft. At first the pilot, Captain Richard Peterson, 56, a 30-year veteran, thought the problem was a broken window, though he later likened the thunderous sound to that of "a shotgun going off next to your ear." Said Passenger Jane Klingel, 25, from California: "The plane shook, as it would in turbulence. In front of me, I saw a sort of green lightning. I thought I was dying...
...search for a suitable replacement. The most promising candidate he could find was one Venustiano Carranza and his band of "Constitutionalists." But they were consitutionalists in name only, as a clever ploy to appeal to Wilson. When they eventually gained power, they threw their democratic pretensions out the window and left Wilson with a regime even more despotic than the one he had seen overthrown...
...shucks duck of his head, gentle smile, a glint of fond memory behind his eyes, and for a few minutes he's standing in an old ivy hall someplace and you can almost hear the mellow chords of the glee club float with the fresh breeze through the open window...
...main purpose of the ballots, due April 11, will be to discover "who are in favor of throwing the CRR out of the window altogether," said LaVaughn M. Henry, president of the Graduate Student Council...