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...guerrilla unit set fire to three gas stations; the night I left there were explosions in the streets.) But that pales in comparison with the countryside. "The subversives are in a position to strike any part of the country," says the Minister of Defense, General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova...
...aware of what was happening. When I arrived in San Lorenzo, I was impressed by the youth of the soldiers. Some, really just children, were playing beneath the luxuriant ceiba tree that shades the main square. "In theory the recruits are not younger than 16," says General Vides Casanova. "But in practice there are many 15-year-olds...
...tells his manic tale in the voice of the crook, displays a phenomenal command of police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both with a succulent female FBI agent who, although she has been sent to investigate him, is enchanted with his line of sexy talk. Aleshkovsky, who teaches a class in conversational Russian at Wesleyan...
According to José Napoleón Duarte, the country's moderate former President, who was in Washington last week, the current U.S. condemnations are more effective than the nebulous certification process. An example cited by Duarte: "The Minister of Defense, Mr. Vides Casanova, for the first time in the history of our country, made an open speech against the death squads...
Carlos Vides Casanova ran the brutal National Guard in 1980, when a gang of Guardsmen shot to death four American women, all Roman Catholic missionaries. Three weeks ago, retired U.S. District Court Judge Harold Tyler submitted his 101-page special report on the case to the State Department. According to those who have seen the classified document, Tyler found that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador pressed the murder investigations properly. It now seems likely that the five Guardsmen charged with murdering the churchwomen will finally be tried. The Salvadoran government has a large incentive to do justice...