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...underwent unspeakable torture and survived. In horrifying detail, exiled Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman, 58, details the sadism, brutality and anti-Semitic abuse he suffered during 30 months of imprisonment in Argentina between 1977 and 1979. His recently published book is also a devastating indictment of Argentina's junta, which the Council on Hemispheric Affairs has called the most flagrant violator of human rights in Latin America...
Third World. Mitterrand is anxious to increase aid and trade with developing countries, and seems likely to strengthen French support for national liberation movements. He is strongly opposed to dealing with any kind of junta or authoritarian regime, no matter how pro-Western, and has sharply criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
...with the European allies, bumpy at best during the Carter years, are much improved. The Secretary believes that disagreements with Japan and China are being smoothed over. Thanks to U.S. military and economic assistance, he is overly eager to assert, leftists have been thwarted in El Salvador and the junta headed by José Napoleón Duarte appears stronger. Haig, and indeed White House aides, claim that they deserve more credit for the unglamorous but essential jobs of improving relations with Canada, Mexico and especially Jamaica, whose new moderate government is supposed to serve as a model of economic...
TIME has learned that the El Salvador government issued an order for Bourgeois's arrest for "subversion" and that the U.S. embassy was able to hustle him out of the country only after getting the reluctant support of José Napoleón Duarte, head of the ruling junta. Arriving in New York, Bourgeois said the object of his trip had been "to walk among the poor and to join their struggle for justice and peace." If the military and the right-wing death squads need any excuse for further harassing church workers in El Salvador, Bourgeois may have...
Criticizing the United States for cutting off loans to Nicaragua's Sandinista government and for aiding the Salvadoran junta. Cardenal warned that his countryment would take up arms again to protect their two-year-old revolution against any aggression...