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...Sunday's election. The voting is being boycotted by the left and threatens to produce either a low turnout or a victory by ultra-rightists (see WORLD). Either result would undermine U.S. policy, which has been based on the hope that the campaign would solidify power for the centrist regime led by President José Napoleon Duarte. Administration officials said that if the far right wins in El Salvador next week the President's aid plan for El Salvador, part of the Caribbean Basin package sent to Congress last week, would be reviewed. "Whatever new government is established...
Reagan's immediate problem is that the ounces of prevention proposed last week will do little to solve the weighty woes of El Salvador. The military situation is deteriorating. The March 28 elections, which the U.S. had hoped would strengthen the centrist Duarte government, are in danger of being disrupted by the left. The rebels have begun a new offensive. And the harsh militaristic leaders of the far right threaten to gain power in a situation that is becoming more polarized, leaving the U.S. with fewer and fewer options. The Administration's policy now is simply to wait...
...approving further aid to the ruling government, the Reagan administration has proposed an easy answer to a problem that begs quite a bit more. It aims to buttress what it claims to be a centrist government against the competing forces of the insurgent left and the military right. As easy, perhaps, as to invoke the response of the implacable American liberal and to call American aid to El Salvador emblematic of "another Vietnam" a military embroilment in a national conflict the United States has no purpose pushing. Trite perhaps, for the troubles of the Salvadoran people might bear little...
...strident and more focused than that of the majority opinion, can help temper U.S. conduct in El Salvador. Critics must insure that El Salvador remains a non-military political problem and the solution primarily a political-economic one. Specifically they can help insure that we use our support of centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte to pressure him to halt the excesses of the far right, plan for free elections, and go ahead with far-reaching land reforms...
Moscow's sobering warnings helped Kania curb his radicals and marshal a safe, moderate centrist majority at a crucial party congress in July. The party reformers were still strong enough to purge most of the old Central Committee, and only five top party officials, including Kania and Jaruzelski, were reelected. But control stayed in the hands of Kama's centrists, who, under pressure from Solidarity, had allowed an amount of freedom in Poland that would have been unthinkable just twelve months before...