U.S. military assistance to Colombia is reaching levels comparable to the aid given El
Salvador in the 1980s, as the Drug War replaces the Cold War in the rubric of national
security.
On New Year’s Eve, 310 of the more than 500 activists gathered at the Nevada Test
Site committed civil disobedience, calling for the abolition of nuclear arms.
On September 29 President Clinton announced that the administration would erase 100
percent of the debt owed to the United States by 30 heavily indebted poor countries.
Celvin Galindo, the prosecutor investigating the murder of Guatemalan Bishop Juan Jose
Gerardi, has fled to the United States for fear of his life.
An estimated 10 million Colombians—a quarter of the country’s
population—took to the streets this fall in protests demanding an end to 40 years of
armed conflict t
Founded by a handful of Oklahoma farmers in 1903, family-owned First Bethany Bank &
Trust recalls some of the finest traditions of small-town business.
