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highly regarded in the US and England.
53. Philip Taubman, NYT, Dec. 4, 1984; Jonathan Kwitny, Nation, April 20,
1985.
54. New Statesman, April 19, 1985; Amnesty Action (Al), April 1985;
Robert Healy, BG, Nov. 26, 1985.
55. CSM, Nov. 18, 21, Dec. 11; BG, Nov. 13, 26, 29, 1984; in the Dec.
11 report, Robert Press of the CSM devotes a few sentences to the
content of a talk by Mrs. Garcia, who accepted the prize here, noting her
charge that members of her family were apprehended and killed and
adding portentously that “she did not say why they had been
apprehended.”
56. Marlise Simons, NYT, Sept. 29, 1985.
57. In Contempt of Congress; Ray Bonner, Weakness and Deceit (Times
Books, 1984), 353; Australian Labor MP Joan Coxsedge, Melbourne
Sun (April 20, 1985), reporting on the first Human Rights Congress in El
Salvador.
58. Draining the Sea . . .; the reporter cited is Chris Hedges, Dallas Morning
News, Jan. 21, 1985; Chris Norton, CSM, March 21, 1985; two of the
few US journalists in Central America who merit the title.
59. James LeMoyne, NYT, Sept. 9, 1984.
60. Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Feb. 2,
1984; released by Americas Watch.
61. Quoted by Howard Zinn, Disobedience and Democracy (Vintage, 1968),
75.
62. Julia Preston, BG, Aug. 15, 1985.
63. COHA News Release, Aug. 3, 1985.
64. Cynthia Brown, ed., With Friends Like These, Americas Watch Report
on Human Rights and US Policy in Latin America (Pantheon, 1985),
194, 180ff.
65. Al News release, 11 October, 1982, cited by Lars Schoultz, in Martin
Diskin, ed., Trouble in Our Backyard (Pantheon, 1983), 186.
66. Craig Nelson and Kenneth Taylor, Witness to Genocide (Survival
International, 1983). The interviewers were Nelson and Central America