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...Catholics and Jews, called for an end to U.S. military aid to El Salvador. But the crucial role of the Roman Catholic Church in Central America makes the position of Catholic leaders in the U.S. particularly relevant. Some church sources say that the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Deane Hinton, has cited the bishops' position as the most serious obstacle to the Administration's efforts to increase military aid to the Salvadoran government...
...most vociferous of the skeptics was Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who arrived with fellow Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island. After a private meeting with El Salvador's Defense Minister, General José Guillermo Garcia, Leahy emerged with Pell and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and complained that he "got along very badly" with the general, who had energetically demanded more U.S. military aid. For his part, Pell told Garcia that "Congress would not continue to authorize unlimited funds for El Salvador if there continued to be gross violations [of human rights], gross assassinations and cruel murders...
...these body counters blame the guerrillas for significant abuses, a sign of the anti-government bias of most of the human rights organizations. Even so, U.S. officials are concerned that the Salvadoran government's publicized reputation for brutality is undermining Administration aid for the regime. Last week Deane Hinton, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, bluntly warned that human rights abuses by government troops have come "dangerously close" to an intolerable limit. Said Hinton: "If there is one issue that could force our Congress to withdraw or seriously reduce its support for El Salvador, it is the issue of human...
...American military instructors in civilian clothes carrying M-16 rifles near an area of guerrilla activity. The military men were helping Salvadorans on a bridge-building exercise, but U.S. policy in El Salvador firmly states that military men must avoid combat zones and carry only sidearms for protection. Ambassador Hinton ordered home the group's leader, Lieut. Colonel Harry Melander, and reprimanded the others...
...sympathetic hearing. Said Senator Norman Lamb: "I hope and pray that women, ladies and girls will not be dragged down to the level of men by the passage of the 27th Amendment." The ERA's broad constitutional language worked against it in the end. Said Darlene Ramming of Hinton, Okla.: "It doesn't say enough. It's like a blank check...