Meara, MR William Robert

THE SON OF A NEW YORK CITY POLICEMAN, William R. Meara studied international affairs and economics at Manhattan College. While a student, he worked as a volunteer English teacher at a Catholic mission school in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. As an army officer, he graduated from Ft. Bragg's Special Forces and Foreign Area Officer courses and served in Honduras, El Salvador, and Panama. In El Salvador, Bill was one of fifty-five American trainer/advisers assisting in the struggle against the Communist FMLN. After leaving the army, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and was sent back to Honduras as s...