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...Salvador, Duarte faces the Herculean task of fighting a civil war while persuading the country's businessmen and military officers to accept reforms that might induce the leftist rebels to give up their arms and join the fragile democracy. Before taking over from interim President Alvaro Magaña last week, he announced that he would reappoint General Eugenic Vides Casanova as Defense Minister, but only on condition that he cleanse the armed forces of their links with the coun try's death squads. A week earlier, Vides Casanova had removed Colonel Nicolas Carranza from his post...
Duarte has said he favors a negotiated settlement with the leftist guerrillas, but he is not expected to rush into any talks. One reason is that at the moment the army enjoys the initiative on the battlefield. Duarte also has vowed not to hold discussions as long as the guerrillas still bear arms. Instead, he is likely to promote a variation of the existing amnesty program, under which rebels who relinquish their weapons are offered protection and the right to run in next year's legislative elections. "But if they are after part of the government, they can forget...
Your article "A Hungry Mob" [WORLD, May 7] states that because the Dominican Republic is a democracy and has no leftist guerrilla threat, Reagan praised its stability and offered no more than the $135.7 million U.S. aid package already approved for this year. Actually, as a result of discussions during Dominican Republic President Jorge Blanco's state visit, the U.S. Government agreed to provide additional help to the Dominican Republic over and above the $112.2 million that was planned for this year. At the time of the President's departure, these new commitments brought the total level...
...critics. "No one could talk to him for half an hour without believing in him," said a high State Department official. "He exuded credibility." Just so: a day after Duarte returned home, where his army is firing a million rounds of ammunition a week in an unending war against leftist guerrillas, the House voted overwhelmingly to send El Salvador $62 million in emergency military aid, without conditions...
Duarte explained his plan to have a "national dialogue" with all Salvadoran factions, including the leftist insurgents. But such talks, he vowed, would never cede a share of governing power ("the piece of cake") to the revolutionaries. He said he would continue El Salvador's ambitious but teetering land-reform program (see WORLD). Perhaps most significant in terms of U.S. support, Duarte said he would establish commissions to investigate the thousands of political murders committed by the extreme right. "I have the will," he said. "I have the guts to do it, to stop the death squads...