Friday, August 12, 2005
THEORY TESTED
“I wanted to go to their events, on the theory that girls who attend communist youth conferences will do anything, like girls with tattoos.”— Harry Hutton, disguised as an International Youth, attends the International Festival of Youth and Students in Caracas. While we’re in South America, El Salvador rocks:
El Salvador sent its fifth contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq for humanitarian missions on Thursday, a move that President Tony Saca said was in the same spirit as the countries that helped El Salvador during its 12-year civil war.
“El Salvador owes a lot to the international community,” Saca said, just before planes carrying the troops took off from the Ilopango air base near the capital.
“This country suffered war, suffered terrorism, and there were a lot of peaceful organizations that came to do humanitarian work, and that’s the reason why we are helping out in Iraq,” Saca said.
What goes around comes around. Saca, incidentally, is of Palestinian background.