Three neighbors react
The 150 or so women, most of them dressed in black, stood outside the gates of the presidential palace in San Salvador waving signs adorned with pictures of relatives. It was one more demonstration by those whose loved ones are listed as missing but are widely assumed to have been killed by the country's death squads. Last Wednesday, however, José Napoleon Duarte left his office and plunged into the mob of weeping women, leaving his bodyguards scrambling. As the women tugged at his sleeves, Duarte promised that the cases would...
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