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...supporting the civilian-military junta that controls El Salvador to prevent a "total disintegration of that society." Jim Cheek, deputy secretary of state for inter-American affairs, said at the forum, adding that the regime at least provides order...
...Representative Javier Pérez de Cuellar, who was due in Kabul as part of an ongoing search for a possible international settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. In that regard, Karmal also said that he was interested in bilateral talks with Pakistan, but, he added bitterly, "the governing military junta in Islamabad has no free will of its own." Pakistan, he said, was being used as a "tool and means of aggression against Afghanistan in an undeclared war by U.S. imperialists and Chinese hegemomsts...
Despite the level of violence, the struggling civilian-military junta has continued to pursue its controversial, and surprisingly successful, land-reform program. Since March 1980, 790,000 acres of rich agricultural land have been expropriated from large landholders and are now farmed cooperatively by 62,000 peasant families. Next week, according to the government, the final block of 875,000 acres will be similarly taken over. TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week visited one of the new cooperatives, the 960-acre Finca Florencia, a coffee plantation 24 miles northwest of San Salvador. His report...
...hour as the man in the short-sleeved guayabera shirt exhorted them to hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative farms in the area, encompassing 31,148 acres and 1,551 peasant families. They had come to watch Ehrlich swear in their newly elected representatives and hear him discuss the future...
...difficulty of stopping an RPG. "It is designed to go through tanks, and we don't have any of them here, unfortunately." Chapin also declared that the U.S. "is not going to be intimidated" in its policy of broad support for El Salvador's civilian-military junta. In Washington, an Administration request for $5 million in additional military aid received final approval in a close vote by a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, American opposition to such aid took the form of large rallies last week in several U.S. cities...