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...miles from the U.S.; El Salvador is a near neighbor. The military-civilian government in San Salvador is its own worst enemy, in the sense that it has alienated its own people and embarrassed what few friends it has left in the world. Still, the junta bears little resemblance to the assorted cliques and strongmen that the U.S. supported in Saigon...
...second condition on military aid that President Reagan has certified as met is that the Salvadoran junta "is achieving substantial control over all elements of its own armed forces." This assertion came on the heels of a massacre of 700 women, children and elderly by the Atlcatl battalion and a New York Times report that American military advisers had witnessed the torture and murder of two Salvadoran teenagers by military officials. If the Salvadoran government is Mexican daily Uno Mas Uno Both are now dead, victims of military repression in contrast to the Reagan Administration's report the U.N. High...
...Salvador Allende, he disappeared. In outline, Charles looks like a modern, minor John Reed. But Missing is not his story. Instead, it tracks the attempts of Charles' wife (Sissy Spacek) and father (Jack Lemmon) to discover whether the young man is indeed missing or dead-killed by the junta for crimes unknown...
...different houses. Students and workers, their parents said; "subversives," the government replied. Twenty more dead Salvadorans. Last month, 1500 Salvadoran military officers arrived in this country for training; two days ago, the administration announced a $55 million increase in military aid to that country's ruling junta. The worst thing of it, of course, is that people and dying for during to ask not to live in hell. But for Americans there is, or should be, another tragic sadness. Some--with more faith than reason--thought Vietnam had taught us a little about our nation and the world. That...
...closed again. In the shadow of the three soaring steel pillars of the new monument now stood an armored personnel carrier, a symbol of the million bayonets that seem forever poised against a surging nationalism. Jaruzelski had announced that the country would henceforth be run by a 21-member junta, the "military council for national salvation." He declared a "state of war" (or state of emergency) under which the trade union movement was suspended and civil liberties were curtailed. His army moved fast and effectively...