The Flight of the Iguana (40 page)

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The Flight of the Iguana

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The Beaded Lizard

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other sanctuary activists, lawyers, public officials, and Central American refugees.

The Eliott Abrams quote comes from a videotaped interview with Mr. Abrams conducted by a crew from PBS television; portions of that interview were included within a segment of the PBS television series
Frontline;
the segment, with narration by Jessica Savitch, was produced and directed by Hector Galan under the auspices of WGBH Boston.

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The Desert Is a Mnemonic Device

This essay was informed by all of the interview and printed sources cited above for “The Beaded Lizard.” It benefited likewise from the Underhill, Nabhan, and Fontana books cited for “Drinking the Desert Juices.” It drew also upon a telephone interview with Eliott Abrams, further private conversations
with John Fife and Jim Corbett, the collected
samizdat
letters of Corbett, and talks with Bob Hirsh, Peggy Hutchison, Sister Darlene Nicgorski, Phil (now) Willis-Conger, Ellen Willis-Conger, Father Tony Clark, Wendy LeWin, Mary Kay Espinoza, Don Reno, and others. Another invaluable source were the weekly summary-bulletins on the progress of the Tucson trial, issued by the press office of the sanctuary defense team. In addition:

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