Word: interent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official U.S. observer contingent: Senator Nancy Kassebaum, Congressmen John Murtha and Robert Livingston, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Everett Briggs, University of Notre Dame President Father Theodore Hesburgh, former University of California President Clark Kerr and Pollsters Richard Scammon and Howard Penniman...
...Salvador (pop. 4.9 million) is where the crisis is the most acute and U.S. policy under the most tension. Guerrillas are increasingly challenging the civilian-military government headed by President José Napoleón Duarte. Says Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders...
Settlement supporters also invoke the American traditions of compromise and consensus, and argue that negotiation could produce a tolerant, pluralistic government. Democratic Congressman Michael Barnes of Maryland, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, insists: "We can go to the table knowing what we will not concede-ultimate power. To say the only outcome is a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship is absurd." Adds Senator Gary Hart, Democrat from Colorado: "I'm not wildly optimistic about negotiations working, but at least we would be honest brokers rather than military promoters...
...Yankee on whom the fates smiled. Born to wealth, educated at Yale and Harvard, he hurtled up through the State Department ranks until, when selected as envoy to Canada at age 43, he was the youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now 50, Enders is Assis tant man of State for Inter-American Affairs and the point man for U.S. pol icy in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is urbane but also aloof, even cold, and almost cynically pragmatic. His blend of tact and two-fistedness resembles the style of his former mentor, Henry Kissinger...
...killing the archbishop and five former national guardsmen have been charged with killing the missionaries. The bishops have contended for two years that the U.S. must not become too closely identified with the Salvadoran government. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington last year told the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs: "Our position is to oppose military aid and intervention from all outside powers." The bishops favored diplomatic pressure to "stop the flow of arms from Cuba through Nicaragua to El Salvador," he said, "but we earnestly and vigorously oppose the sending of U.S. military assistance to El Salvador...