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The Honduran government has banned the showing of Oliver Stone’s “Salvador” on the grounds that its grim portrayal of that country’s civil war threatened state security, according to reports published in Honduras Tuesday. “Salvador” has been showing in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa for two weeks. The reports said that the State Commission on Film Censorship decided to ban the film after receiving a petition from Armed Forces Chief Gen. Humberto Regalado. “Salvador” stars James Woods as a reporter covering the early stages of the war, which is still continuing in neighboring El Salvador. It portrays, with some dramatic license, a number of incidents such as the murder of four U.S. churchwomen by National Guardsmen, the killing of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, death squad activity and the rise of the leftist guerrilla movement.