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Friends and employees of Roy Bourgeois, an American priest who has been missing since Monday in El Salvador, yesterday challenged El Salvador's president juse Duarte a assertion that Bourgeols "many have disappeared of his own accord," or that "he might have secretly joined the leftist guerrillas...
...Administration-with Haig in the lead-made the mistake of overblowing its claim that the ugly little war in El Salvador is a showdown between Soviet-Cuban expansionism and American resolve. There is little doubt that the Cubans and their Sandinista friends in Nicaragua have supplied the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas with arms. But by casting the Central American conflict in apocalyptic East-West terms, the U.S. has already prompted criticism from Western Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and even China...
Reports of massacres in the Morazon district alone are not new. Since security forces launched "clean-up operations" --offensives against leftist guerrillas in Morazon and Chalatenango provinces--last October, hundreds of innocent peasants have been murdered. A nun working in Morazon was quoted in the January 19, 1981 issue of Newsweek that 200 persons were killed every week...
...reliable are these reports from nuns and human rights organizations? Are they really, as Mathis claims, "probably the creation of people trying to discredit the El Salvadorean government"? Most of these groups and individuals are non-partisan and far from leftist. They are simply concerned with violations of human life and rights, and the more outspoken members are often persecuted by security forces for their disclosures and condemnations...
...torment of El Salvador's civil strife knows no interval. Fighting between government forces and leftist insurgents continued unabated last week, and so did political killings. In a single day, 37 people were assassinated by the country's security forces. In Soyapango, a slum section of San Salvador, police dragged 23 people from their homes and shot them dead in the street; seven others refused to come out and were killed indoors...