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The Sandinistas have admitted supplying the F.M.L.N. with other types of weapons in the past. But U.S. intelligence agencies have not been able to come up with hard information about the nature of these shipments or how they have changed over time. Some Washington officials believe Managua's military aid...
The much graver danger to the region is that El Salvador will slip completely into chaos as the government discovers that it cannot control even the streets around its offices in San Salvador. "The military is showing itself to be incompetent," says a U.S. official. "Unless there's some radical...
A grisly fantasy of a different sort may soon be conjured up out of the frustration of ultra-rightists in the Salvadoran army and government who are considering a campaign of terror to suppress the insurgents. Between 1980 and 1985, confirmed killings by death squads linked to the military or...
Already the government is betraying distressingly fascist leanings. Strict, vaguely worded laws curbing dissent were rammed through the legislature last week. Death squads are on the rise; evidence collected by human-rights groups strongly implicates the army in the killing of six Jesuit priests three weeks ago. Predictably, the criminal...
By the time George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Malta, there was no longer any pretense that this was to be a meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling...