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Radical will

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By Deb Olin Unferth

Weekly Review — April 25, 2006, 12:00 am

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Under the presumed influence of White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, who collects photographs of President George W. Bush’s hands, Karl Rove was relieved of his position as presidential policy adviser in order that he might focus his energies on the November midterm elections, and White House press secretary Scott McClellan resigned. “One of these days,” the President said of McClellan, “he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas and talking about the good old days.”USA TodayForbes.comBBC NewsIn Iraq, three U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb and at least 27 Iraqis were killed in …

Weekly Review — November 15, 2005, 12:00 am

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In Amman, Jordan, 57 people were killed in explosions at three different hotels. “We thought it was fireworks for the wedding,” said Ahmed at the Radisson. An Iraqi woman named Sajida Rishawi later described how she, her husband, and two other Iraqis had entered Jordan on forged passports intending to blow up the hotels; while the other three suicide bombers succeeded, she explained, her exploding belt malfunctioned, so she ran.BBC NewsThe Los Angeles TimesKuwait�??s largest oil field began to run out of oil,AMEInfo.comand Saudi Arabia was told it could now join the World Trade Organization.BBC NewsAustralian authorities arrested 17 men …

Weekly Review — October 11, 2005, 12:00 am

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Lost Souls in Hell, 1875. At least 42,000 people died in an earthquake in Pakistan,ABC Newsand hundreds of people in Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador were buried alive in mudslides caused by Hurricane Stan.Science DailyBritain accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of providing Iraqi Shiite groups with the technology to carry out bombing attacks.BBC NewsA suicide bomber in Iraq blew himself up on a bus, killing ten people,BBC Newsand the Supreme Court of Israel ordered the Israeli Army to stop using Palestinians as human shields.BBC NewsThe CIA announced that it would not punish any of its employees for intelligence failures leading …

Weekly Review — October 4, 2005, 12:00 am

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John G. Roberts, Jr. was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States,CNN.comand President George W. Bush nominated Harriet Miers, a White House lawyer who has never been a judge, to the Supreme Court. Miers has allegedly described Bush as “brilliant.”David Frum�??s Diary/NROJapanese scientists photographed a giant squid and managed to tear off one of its tentacles.MSNBCA New York judge ruled that several suppressed photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq must be released,BBC Newsand the U.S. Army was looking into claims that its soldiers had traded digital pictures of burned and dismembered Iraqi and Afghani bodies …

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You must go home again

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Deported L.A. gangbangers take over El Salvador

By Scott Wallace

Article — From the July 1993 issue

Bringing the Truth Commission back home

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Raymond Bonner and the news from El Salvador that didn’t fit

By Michael Massing

Readings — From the April 1989 issue

Salvadoran death threats

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A dialogue

Readings — From the July 1988 issue

A Salvadoran’s plea

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By María Teresa Tula

Readings — From the May 1988 issue

Surfin’ Salvador

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The soccer war

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Design for a Central American battlefield

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Quien vas a llamar?

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Stiff upper lips

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Inside a death squad

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By Allan Nairn, Rene Hurtado

Article — From the June 1984 issue

A revolutionary program for El Salvador

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Oldenburg’s El Salvador

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By Claes Oldenburg (Artist/illustrator)

Readings — From the April 1984 issue

Your tax dollars at work in El Salvador

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By Clay Bennett (Cartoonist)

Readings — From the March 1984 issue

Heeding the call (II)

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Witness at El Playón

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Photography from El Salvador’s heart of darkness

By Robert Stone

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Farewell, Monroe doctrine

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Three dates of change in Latin America

By Carlos Fuentes

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