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...leftist offensive is not final, after...
...path to El Salvador's all-out civil war, however, intensified in October 1979 when a group of "progressive" military officers overthrew the rightist military government and formed a coalition with several leftist political parties. The new government, backed by the United States, pledged widespread agrarian reform and aid to the country's six million poor. It also promised to put an end to repression and human rights abuses by the armed forces, and simultaneously to supress the leftist guerrillas they felt were a danger to the state...
...Salvador's greatest political crisis struck at the end of November, when six leftist leaders were gunned down in the country's capital, San Salvador. This incident was closely followed by the murder of three American nuns, an event which prompted former president Jimmy Carter to suspend aid to El Salvador. In both cases, rightist military forces and military officials were suspected. The U.S. government initiated an investigation of the nuns' slaying. But despite inconclusive findings and the reported opposition of former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Carter resumed both economic and military support to Duarte shortly before leaving...
...Leftist guerrillas, fueled by aid from several countries, including Nicaragua, Cuba and Libya, recently started major offensives against the Duarte government, so far with mixed results. In the first stage of the offensive, more than 20,000 government workers walked off their jobs in support, but government forces prevented the guerrillas from capturing hoped-for symbolic military victories before President Reagan's inauguration...
...government supported by the people of El Salvador. If the opposition is to overcome the repressive regime that rules the country by terror now, the United States should either halt its aid to Duarte or, for once, aid the popular forces. Only with the victory of El Salvador's leftist guerrillas will peace return to the embattled Central American country...