Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially the efforts of Robert White, subsequently led to a land redistribution program that divided the holdings of some 300 powerful landowners for the benefit of 60,000 farm families, while private sector interests received continued encouragement from the government. When the administration resumed aid to the military-civilian junta several weeks ago it was more out of a fear that the left's "final offensive" would destroy this delicate ideological balance than the calculated genocide you alluded to in your editorial...
...Still, one military expert contends that "only with an immense infusion of arms and men from the outside" do the guerrillas have a chance at winning the war. Owing in part to the failure of the January offensive, and to the Reagan Administration's determination to help the junta, the leftists' support abroad is ebbing. Even the sympathetic Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua has urged the guerrillas to work out "a negotiated settlement" with the junta...
...already be too late. Junta President José Napoleon Duarte has firmly stated that there are no negotiating points with the guerrillas, and that the people should decide what kind of government they want in "free and honest elections," now scheduled for 1982-83. Duarte insists that his government's program of social reforms, especially land reform, will continue to erode support of the guerrillas...
...itself has been overshadowed by random attacks on civilians by right-wing and leftist death squads. The rightist squads are often aided by members of the government security forces. Many of them are said to be receiving funds from exiled Salvadorans in Miami and elsewhere who vehemently oppose the junta's land reforms, which have led to the expropriation of some large ranches, and hope to see Duarte's government fall...
...petition, presented to Tsongas at the Somerville High School, where he was presiding over a town meeting, demands that the U.S. "end all military and economic aid to the El Salvador junta...