On the Record
Adopt-a-Contra "I felt important in Honduras," says James Adair, a 36-year-old Houston adventurer who recently spent six weeks there accompanying right-wing guerrillas on forays...
...Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston, West Virginia October 7, 1984...
...It was exciting...
...Adopt-a-Contra "I felt important in Honduras," says James Adair, a 36-year-old Houston adventurer who recently spent six weeks there accompanying right-wing guerrillas on forays into Nicaragua...
...For example, the right-wing Caribbean Commission in New Orleans has been borrowing storage space and begging air-cargo services in its campaigns to send clothing and other goods to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras...
...We have 125,000 Nicaraguan refugees, most of whom are poor people, in Costa Rica today...
...But as a support system for archaeologists bent on the serious business of uncovering Mayan civilization, it serves its purpose admirably...
...Some gung-ho Americans trek to Latin Amel-ica mostly for adventure...
...Winsor: That's because it suits the Rev...
...Haught: But there are no Nicaraguan refugees [seeking sanctuary] in Riverside Church in New York...
...The New York Times February 1, 1985 Winsor Nails Coffin Haught: You talked of human rights offenses in Nicaragua, but is anything there as bad as the death squads in El Salvador...
...You have concentration camps in Nicaragua...
...It also recently sent 10,000 homemade rosaries to anti-Sandinista rebels...
...Adair asks...
...The bathroom and shower facilities are sketchy, and there is nothing in the way of planned play or recreation...
...Why can't we just say we do it for adventure...
...But at the moment, given the strain of reaching lxcanrio, it will be quite a while before honeymooners arrive...
...Adair, the one-time Honduran adviser, who writes about the group's exploits for an obscure military magazine under such headlines as "Sandinista Turkey Shoot...
...The New York Times May 25, 1984 Pope to Join Second International...
...The plight of the Indians is terrible in the extreme...
...you don't have them in Salvador...
...In Salvador you deal in tens of persons...
...1 But increasingly, charitable acts are tied to one political side or the other...
...For one thing, with typhoid and alligators lurking in it, the nearby river is not the safest place to swim...
...While everything will be done to stabilize the site and prevent its deterioration, the archaeologists say, its extensive restoration would be justified only if tourism were realistically possible...
...Ambassador to Costa Rica Curtin] Winsor: The death squads in El Salvador pale by comparison...
...Why do we have to wrap everything in the flag...
...The Wall Street Journal June 14, 1985 Summer Camp in the Peten Apart from the similar circumstance of outdoor living, the campsite of the Rio Azul archaeological project in the Guatemalan jungle is really quite different from, say, the Camp Pocahontas that one attended as a child in Maine...
...We had a good time...
...That's the country that I know...
...U.S...
...The CMA is just a bunch of good ol' boys from Alabama not given to deep political examination," says Mr...
...John Paul has from almost the beginning of his pontificate sought to elaborate a social doctrine that is a kind of "third way" between what he sees as the materialism of both capitalism and Communism...
...in Nicaragua the human rights offenses go into the tens of thousands of persons...
...The 2,500 member Civilian Military Assistance group of Decatur, Ala., provides military training and combat gear and even fights side by side with rebel soldiers...
...It's God's forces versus anti-God forces," explains Alton Ochsner Jr., a doctor who heads the group...
...This, in the view of some, makes the Pope a kind of Social Democrat...
...You have genocide occurring in Nicaragua...
...Coffin's sense of political hysteria to do so...
...Its newest program, called "Adopt-a-Contra," allows individuals to "sponsor" a rebel and his family for so much money a month...
Vol. 19 • July 1985 • No. 4
