Word: denialism
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Karl: I think one of the results of that uncoordinated U.S. policy in El Salvador is to actually make U.S. foreign policy hostage to the right in El Salvador. I watched in the Salvadoran papers, I saw something absolutely astonishing: the President of the United States issuing a denial that the United States embassy was penetrated by communists in El Salvador. It was a ludicrous scene, and I think that that kind of mixed message only plays, in the end, in the hands of the right in El Salvador, because the right--and I would say the non-democratic, violent...
...great political error," said a Latin American diplomat referring to the visa denial. "People are always worrying that Reagan does not know how to play this delicate game of international relations." Such concerns are hardly new; the Administration has proven remarkably adept at sending the wrong signals in the past, particularly concerning Central America. But what makes last week's two "initiatives" so grating is the fact that Washington botched one clear cut opportunity to reduce tensions in the region and soured the fruit one long term policy had begun to bear...
...this country of Salvadoran human rights excesses appeared of late to be producing a few positive results: for example, the Ministry of Defense transfered and demoted several officers accused of rights violations, including the intelligence heads of the Treasury Police--noted rights abusers--and the National Police. The visa denial and the bill veto put at least a temporary chill on both developments...
...last year, when Jerry Falwell and a PLO representative spoke in Cambridge, small groups of loud protesters made hypocrites of themselves by using one of the very same tactics they deplore in their enemies. The "enemy" this year was Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, and the tactic was denial of free speech...
...would be worthless from the U.S. standpoint, since American satellites and the RC-135s provide far more detailed intelligence than any modified 747 could. The U.S. has never sent out a 747 on a spy mission, Air Force sources insist. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was vehement in his denial of the spying charge. Said he: "Nobody on earth but the Soviet authorities would believe that a 70-year-old man or a four-year-old child would be allowed to fly in a civilian plane that had the objective of violating Soviet airspace to engage in espionage...