I am a nurse. and one of the Vermont delegation who spent July 9 through 20 In El Salvador and Honduras where I was privileged and saddened to see the effects of our national policies. We were stopped and sometimes searched by the military in both countries. We heard testimony after testimony of arrest without warrant. torture. assassination. and disappearances. We saw so many displaced persons. forced to call refugee camps "home." each with their personal tragedy of being wrenched from their land and livelihood. Small clilldren stared at my gray hairand I realized that few people there grow old enough to warrant that achievement. This case Is speaking of El Salvador. she went on to say the life expectancy there Is but 45 years.