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...violence by rightist death squads. For the past month the Reagan Administration has stepped up pressure on the Salvadoran government to clamp down on the murderous crews, but last week's signals were confusing at best. First the State Department denied a U.S. visa to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of El Salvador's Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party, some of whose members have been linked to the killings. The next day, however, President Reagan vetoed a bill that would have extended a provision under which U.S. military aid can flow...
Diplomats are now convinced that the death squads include army officers and aides close to Roberto d'Aubuisson, president of the Constituent Assembly and head of the right-wing ARENA Party. U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering has warned that continued U.S. economic and military aid would depend on evidence that the government was making an effort to "deal with [the terrorism] directly." During a visit to El Salvador last week, Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle charged that the death squads actually "serve the Communist cause...
...commission on Central America, which is just back from a one-country-a-day tour of the region, will give its recommendations to the President. The commission's stop in El Salvador may have been the most significant: leaving his talks with the Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing President of the Constituent Assembly, freely acknowledged that right-wing death squads, now resurgent and responsible for at least 100 killings a week, are often commanded by Salvadoran government soldiers. Back in Washington at week...
...that the U.S. depended on El Salvador as a front line against Cuban-and Nicaraguan-inspired subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned D'Aubuisson's charges that Samuel Maldonado, leader of the 100,000-strong Salvadoran Communal Union, a peasant organization that has close ties to U.S. labor groups, had collaborated with leftist guerrillas...
...convinced Magaña and other Salvadoran leaders that the U.S. would not be sacrificing their cause and that the planned meeting in San José could be valuable. Neither Magaña nor any other prominent officeholder objected publicly to the meeting, and even Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the far-right Republican Nationalist Alliance (ARENA) declared, "If [Stone] thinks it convenient to talk to the guerrillas and give us his recommendations...