L.A. Times Reporter Laurie Becklund Dies at 66

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By: Thomas Curwen | L.A. Times

They call it Door of the Devil," wrote Times journalist Laurie Becklund in 1983, "a craggy spot not far from downtown San Salvador where the earth ends, plunging into a sheer, mist-filled ravine."

Becklund had been reporting from El Salvador for nearly four years and had finished a series of stories that would change America's perception of the violence ravaging that country.