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...Holocaust, they could be equally extreme. "I have lived through a pilot project for the destruction of humanity." Pisar says, "a death rattle of the species on the eve if the nuclear age. To me the nuclear arms race is a kind of specter of a planetary gas chamber...
...clawing television commercials and bumper stickers had never appeared. After an estimated outlay of some $130 million by Republican and Democratic candidates, the lineup of the Senate had not changed a bit. The breakdown remained 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The G.O.P. had feared that it might lose the chamber it had seized in 1980, or at least see its margin over the Democrats narrowed. "Needless to say," said Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, "I'm relieved...
...Arrogant omnipotence." "Unworthy foreign intervention." Those epithets, and others, blared from a full-page advertisement last week in one of El Salvador's largest newspapers, El Diario de Hoy. Sponsored by the 702-member Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the broadside reflected a swelling tide of outrage in the conservative business community against U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton, 59. Reason for the uproar: in the toughest speech he has made in his 17 months in El Salvador, Hinton cautioned that the U.S. "could be forced to deny assistance to El Salvador" if the country did not substantially improve...
Hinton delivered his warning at a luncheon meeting of El Salvador's influential American Chamber of Commerce. In accented Spanish, he told 300 Salvadoran business leaders that they must begin to face up to the most grisly aspect of their country's three-year civil war against Marxist-led guerrillas: the murder of some 30,000 Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans at the hands of paramilitary death squads widely believed in most cases to have connections with the local security forces. It was a subject, Hinton told his audience, that "so many of you, because...
...response of the Salvadoran business community to Hinton's speech offered few grounds for optimism. In addition to castigating the Ambassador for his words, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry advertisement referred to U.S. blemishes, including bygone lynch laws and the continued existence of America's own criminal Mafia. Friendship between nations, said the advertisement, is "a generous sentiment, not subject to conditions." Alas, that is hardly ever so in international relations. As Hinton warned, friendships that come under intolerable strain can also come...