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...Salvador it was momentous. As heavily armed members of the Salvadoran national guard stood by, six of their former colleagues appeared last week before a judge in the town of Zacatecoluca. The judge's task: to decide whether the six should stand trial for the brutal murders 14 months ago of three American nuns, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel, and a U.S. religious lay worker, Jean Donovan. At week's end, the judge ruled that five of the men should be charged with homicide; the sixth, he found, had not been involved in the crimes...
Should that policy fail, the Administration will face some excruciatingly difficult choices. If Duarte should lose out to one of his rightist rivals, does the U.S. withdraw its support and leave the repressive new regime to its own brutal but dwindling devices? More difficult still, if the guerrillas seem on the brink of military victory, does the U.S. send in combat troops? Friendly countries in the region and American allies around the world would almost unanimously oppose deeper, more direct American involvement; the Administration would also have to contend with massive political and popular resistance in this country, based...
Northeastern's crisp passing, good outside shooting and brutal work under the boards left the Crimson panting for breath. The Huskies outrebounded the Crimson 45-27, and shot 46 percent from the floor to the home team's 29 percent...
...number. This slaughtering of Bengalis by Pakistani forces between March and December 1971 probably has no parallel in modern history except the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews. Under the pretext of putting down a threat to the unity of the nation of Pakistan, the genocide proceeded with a brutal and purposeful efficiency. Beginning in March with a raid by the Pakistani army on the capital city of Dacca, it fanned out rapidly to the countryside, destroying the villages and terrorizing smaller cities...
...linkage, that Haig said, "The situation in Poland casts a long and dark shadow" across the whole range of relations. True enough. But so does the situation in Afghanistan. And in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Cuba and the U.S.S.R. itself, all of which are under less blatant but hardly less brutal forms of martial law. The very nature of the Soviet system and the exercise of Soviet power cast a long, dark shadow across U.S. policy. So far linkage has been just another word in the vocabulary the Administration has used to curse that darkness...