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...Central America that George Bush will have to deal with come January is a place that will require fresh approaches to frustratingly old problems. While the Reagan Administration can claim credit for laying the groundwork for democracy in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, all three governments remain dependent on the support of military establishments that continue to exert considerable influence in civilian affairs. Death squads with links to the military still use guns to silence critics, making a mockery of the precepts of democratic dialogue and respect for human rights. And regionwide, the basic standard of living has sunk...
...tough with the Sandinistas but offer little public support, it is these countries that must live with the consequences of U.S. policies. Last month Honduras proposed to the U.N. General Assembly the creation of an international peacekeeping force to patrol its borders with Nicaragua and El Salvador. Honduras has refused to sign a new military cooperation agreement with the U.S. Perhaps more to the point, President Jose Azcona Hoyo recently suggested that the U.S. will have to "move to one side" in deliberations over Central America's future...
...sorry record in race relations was reaffirmed in September when a federal court in El Paso found that the bureau had systematically assigned Hispanic agents to low-level duties known as the "taco circuit." The court warned that it might impose reforms on the agency's promotions system. Now FBI supervisors may be making matters worse: lawyers for 20 of the 311 agents involved in the suit went to court last week to charge that a number of those involved in the case had been removed from their duties or harassed in other ways...
Bernardo Perez, now assistant head of the FBI's El Paso office, accused his superior of vowing to "get those" who testified in the lawsuit. Last week's filing, which also requests a court order barring further retaliation, says agents have been warned by superiors not to discuss the case with the press. It charges that the head of the bureau's Los Angeles office has asked FBI investigators to analyze the October issue of California magazine for possible administrative action against three agents who provided information -- including Perez, who appears on the cover...
BREAK A LEG, MR. AMBASSADOR. William Walker, 53, had been ambassador to El Salvador only a few weeks when he decided to throw himself into his new job -- literally. Though he had no previous experience as a parachutist, the gung- ho diplomat recklessly accepted U.S. military trainers' assurances that a 10,000-ft. jump out of a C-130 would be a lot of fun. The Ambassador is now recuperating from multiple fractures...