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Re: [xmca] BBC: El Salvador marks Archbishop Oscar Romero's murder



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mike

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> Thirty years ago on March 24, Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered while
> celebrating Mass, an event being commemorated now in El Salvador.
>
> ( See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8580840.stm )
>
> A week ago In Texas, Romero, a champion of the poor, was removed from the
> state's social studies standards by the State Board of Education.
>
> One Board member said Romero's not important enought, arguing that he
> doesn't even have a movie made about him.
>
> Well, there is the movie featured at
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098219/ , but the TX BD member might have
> been confused by that movie's title: "Romero".
>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK  DE  19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
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