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Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Monday query.Name: David A
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NewsHour special correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth sent the Rundown this reflection on some of the international stories she has covered and where they stand today.This month brought news I wouldn ;t have believed possible in 1984, when I first reported for the The NewsHour on a brutal counter-insurgency war in Guatemala. The piece covered the destruction of Mayan villages by soldiers pursuing leftist guerrillas. More than 400 villages were wiped out and thousands of people killed. I interviewed starving men and women whose children those who survived the attack on their village had died of hunger in mountains where they fled to escape the killing. I was deeply affected by what I witnessed and disturbed by the justifications given by then-President Mej铆a Victores, a general, who oversaw the counter-insurgency campaign. The only way to defeat guerrillas, he said, was to uproot the p
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