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...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...
...negotiations mediated by San Salvador's Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, the Duarte administration agreed to the kidnapers' demand that 22 political prisoners be freed. The government also granted safe conduct out of El Salvador to 101 wounded guerrillas in need of medical treatment. In return, the F.M.L.N. handed over Duarte Durán and Villeda to intermediaries in the bombed-out town of Tenancingo, north of San Salvador. The rebels also began releasing 33 mayors and municipal officials abducted during the past six months...
That measured rationale won no sympathy from the right-wing opposition party ARENA, which sharply criticized Duarte for capitulating to the kidnapers. Even before the exchange of prisoners, an advertisement in the national newspaper El Diario de Hoy asked, "How will it be explained to the soldiers who in the field of battle captured these freed insurrectionists?" Of more immediate concern to the President was the reaction of the Salvadoran armed forces, which lately have had a hard time combatting the guerrillas' hit-and-run attacks. One field commander circulated a petition objecting to the negotiations with the guerrillas. Duarte...
...regional issues, the White House will attack Soviet activities in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and a now familiar list of other countries; the Kremlin will raise American backing of the embattled governments of El Salvador and, allegedly, South Africa, among others. The two might agree, however, to set up regular meetings between their regional experts...
...wants to prevent local clashes from turning into superpower confrontations. Reagan will say the U.S.S.R. should stop supporting Communist insurgency in El Salvador and break its military ties with Nicaragua. The U.S. will also criticize Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Africa and Kampuchea and will suggest the signing of a mutual statement condemning terrorism...