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...Salvador is clearly not another Viet Nam. The superficial parallels are outweighed by some very real differences. Among them: El Salvador is not a sprawling jungle 8,000 miles from American shores, the junta is conscientiously trying to carry out an agrarian reform program, and the 4,000 leftist guerrillas are not backed by a force the size of the North Vietnamese army. Nonetheless, President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have invested high stakes in a guerrilla war in a republic the size of Massachusetts. By waging a campaign against "indirect armed aggression" of foreign Communists...
Peasants in the parched countryside report that many of the revolutionary bands are near starvation, but it is too early to dismiss the leftist cause. The rebels are said to be regrouping and waiting for the May rainy season to launch new attacks. They continue to blow up a power line here and cut telephone wires there in the sort of skirmishing that can drag on interminably, with neither side able to claim victory. "The army has fought the guerrillas to a draw," said one U.S. official in San Salvador last week. "The conflict could...
...least for the moment, the war 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...
...commanded Guardia Civil units in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa before he was transferred, in 1977, for refusing to allow the newly authorized Basque national flag to be flown. Posted to Málaga, in southern Spain, he ordered his men to break up a government-authorized leftist demonstration on the ground that "no one is allowed to demonstrate here, because Spain is in mourning [over terrorism]." After his arrest in 1978 for participating in a plot to overthrow the government, he sent a revealing open letter to King Juan Carlos in which he urged: "What we need...
...added that although Christians were asked not to respond with violence, ten leading Catholic intellectuals signed a declaration backing the leftist insurrection...