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There are two opposing views regarding recent reports from a Honduran organization sympathetic to El Salvador's left of a massacre of nearly 1500 people. According to the reports, the National Guard opened fire on 700 women, 600 old persons, and 150 children who were trying to cross the border into Honduras on March 27. They state the killings occurred by some caves between Santa Flena and Hualicela. The Honduran group quotes accounts by survivors of the massacre and by peasants living nearby...
...Mathis's assertions are correct, he and a U.S. Embassy official in San Salvador. Mark Dion, quoted in an April 13 Boston Globe article, display a disconcerting lack of familiarity with the claims. Both Dion and Mathis said they knew of no town named Santa Elena near the Honduran border, thus unaware of or ignoring reports which said the massacre also occurred near another town, Hualicela...
EVEN IF REPORTERS can't gain access to the site of the March 27 massacre, why has the American press been so reluctant even to mention the Honduran group's charges? While many major French. Canadian, Nicaraguan, Honduran and Mexican newspapers quoted the reports, only a handful of U.S. newspapers did the same. The answer several American journalists explained, is that most American papers are afraid to print anything which has not been confirmed by several sources. "To have your credibility on the line is hair-raising," says one editor. Adds Nelson, "Many editors are reluctant to seem extreme politically...
...terrorists lost one in Bangkok, they won in another hijack drama in Managua, Nicaragua. A Honduran Sahsa Airlines Boeing 737 was commandeered at gunpoint by five hijackers demanding the release of 15 leftists imprisoned in Honduras. In a complicated deal, the Honduran government agreed to free the prisoners if the plane's 50 passengers and six crew members were released into the custody of Panamanian authorities, acting as intermediaries. The plane was flown to Panama, where the passengers were released, and three days later a Panamanian Air Force jet was dispatched to Honduras to pick up ten leftist prisoners...
...minority moderate faction within the armed forces is seeking closer relations with the civilian democratic opposition. It favors friendly relations with the Nicaraguan government and with the FSLN. It wants no Honduran involvement in El Salvador. It considers that open conflict with Nicaragua could prove dangerously destabilizing for Honduras and is not convinced of the possibility of defeating the new Sandinista army and militias...