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...talks with the U.S. The top U.S. diplomat in El Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within the Reagan Administration about what might emerge from all these talks about talks, since so much...
...eleven-page report charging that Cuba has increased its arms shipments to Salvadoran rebels in the past few months in an attempt to disrupt the upcoming election of a constituent assembly there. The weapons flow has "reached unprecedented peaks," the report said, since guerrilla leaders met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana in December. No intelligence data were released to support the charges...
...seemed as if the two terrorist organizations were spending as much time shooting at each other as at their common enemy, the Salvadoran military. FARN was the only guerrilla group to break with the guerrillas' united front after it was formed in early 1980, at the insistence of Fidel Castro. FARN rejoined the others, however, within a few months, after one of its commanders, Ernesto Jovel, died in a mysterious airplane crash...
...longtime specialist on Latin America, Christian faults her colleagues for ignoring, then misinterpreting, the rise of Tomás Borge. A friend of Fidel Castro's with "almost mystical stature" among Latin guerrillas, Borge was jailed and tortured during Somoza's rule. When Somoza fell and Borge got control of the Interior Ministry and the security forces, both the Post and the Times forecast that Borge was now, in the Times 's words, "in a position to control the most radical elements among the rebels." Before long, Borge's men killed one business leader, arrested others...
...whole generation or two of leftists, mostly intellectuals and mostly New Yorkers, who actually spent some or all of their lives in the thrall of sectarian myth. And maybe, more to the point, a somewhat larger number of"60s types who glorified a bit too strenuously the virtues of Fidel and Ho and Mao Sontag belongs, more or less, in both categories; she was born into the Manhattan neo-Stalinist school of the '30s and '40s (though she was never a supporter) and in the '60s revived her interest in Matters political to take an active part in the antiwar...