In Review
Salvador Witness: The Life and Calling of Jean Donovan by Ana Carrigan. Simon and Schuster, 317 pp. $16.95 (cloth). As author Carrigan describes Jean Donovan, she was a...
...Churchwomen...
...The president has the right to repel attacks against the United States or against its armed forces...
...paper...
...This is a fascinating book, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately moving...
...It also calls on the contras and on the United States to end their provocations in the dispute...
...North American Regional Organization of the IUF, 21 pp...
...Philip Russell has written a strikingly comprehensive history of El Salvador...
...The Miskitos in Nicaragua 19811984, An Americas Watch Report...
...These essays, reprinted from the Political Science Quarterly, trace the debate from the eighteenth century...
...Ana Carrigan co-produced the award-winning film, "Roses in December," and the NBC-TV film, "Choices of the Heart," chronicling the life of Jean Donovan, and her death in El Salvador with three other U.S...
...Taylor & Francis Inc., 37pp...
...Her deep friendship with Michael Crowley, an Irish priest who had worked in the slums of Peru and Harlem, also helped turn her religion, previously relegated to regular but uninspired Church attendance, into a calling...
...Congress has the exclusive authority to formally declare war...
...The Academy of Political Science, 204 pp...
...Within a few years, Donovan abandoned a high-paid but unfulfilling job to become a lay missionary for the Maryknoll order...
...The closing essay, by Walter LaFeber, is adapted from his book, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America and looks at President Reagan's positions vis-a-vis the region's conflicts...
...The Honduras-Nicaragua Conflict and Prospects for Arms Control in Central America by Jozef Goldblat and Victor Millan...
...paper...
...The President's War Powers: From the Federalists to Reagan edited by Demetrios Caraley...
...7.95 (paper...
...In 1980, the company secured new owners to replace former management, which allegedly conspired in the severe repression of the union...
...On March 25, 1984, a North American trade union delegation travelled to Guatemala on a fact-finding mission...
...On February 18, 1984, the 460 workers of Guatemala City's CocaCola bottling plant were informed that the business was bankrupt and would close the next day...
...The authors focus on the dramatic militarization of Honduras and on the large-scale, U.S.-Honduran Big Pine operations as a key development in the region in this welldocumented compendium of arsenals...
...20006...
...Colorado River Press, 165pp...
...Copies from the publisher, Box 7547, Austin, TX 78713...
...El Salvador in Crisis by Philip L. Russell...
...As author Carrigan describes Jean Donovan, she was a mischievous, domineering tomboy who grew up in the well-insulated conservatism of suburban Connecticut...
...A Special Report on the IUF Trade Union Delegation on the Occupation of the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Guatemala...
...Russell has drawn from a wealth of material to write what is an excellent primer for anyone seeking a thorough introduction to El Salvador...
...The authors state that from 1979-1983, the overall military spending of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica increased by over 50% in real terms...
...This pamphlet is reprinted from the 1984 edition of the SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Yearbook...
...She arrived in El Salvador just as the violence was first hitting the international headlines-naturally bewildered, increasingly frightened, but intent on living out her vocation...
...Following the 1979 revolution, the culturally isolated Miskitos quickly came to resent Sandinista hegemony, and resisted the government's integration programs, leading to altercations between the government and the indigenous organization, Misurasata...
...Copies from the IUF, Suite 408, 815 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C...
...As Professor Demetrios Caraley states in his preface to The President's War Powers, the long-simmering controversy over who holds ultimate, wartime, decision-making power has centered on the president's right to use military force to further American interests-essentially a political consideration-in incidents of undeclared warfare...
...9.95 (paper...
...She entered a college exchange program in Ireland still a quite overbearing and competitive person...
...Since 1970, the total number of military personnel has almost tripled, with significant shifts toward paramilitary forces trained in counterinsurgency-and most weapons stockpiled are for police and counterinsurgency missions...
...This book sweeps from the days of Spanish conquest and colonialism through the economic booms, crashes, wars and coups of the last three centuries to the more familiar events of the last two decades...
...Copies from the Academy, 2852 Broadway, New York, NY 10025...
...It agreed to control the plant via the new managers, ensuring union privileges, for five years...
...Their findings, expressing extreme concern for the safety of the Guatemalan trade unionists, are published in this report...
...Suspecting that the bankruptcy had been deliberately engineered, the workers' union took the dangerous step of occupying the plant until Coca-Cola fulfilled its contractual obligations...
...Americas Watch Committee, 60pp...
...Americas Watch has monitored the situation of the Miskito Indians on Nicaragua's Atlantic coast since 1982, and has researched the case on each of five fact-finding missions...
...This report examines the ensuing conflicts, forced relocations and Miskito-contra collaboration, and concludes that while the government has committed serious rights abuses, the situation is not irreconcilable...
...But it was there, Carrigan intimates, that Donovan, somehow awakened by her dismal, workingclass and fervently Catholic surroundings, began the spiritual transformation that eventually took her to El Salvador...
Vol. 19 • January 1985 • No. 1
