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...presidential election, which Washington views as a crucial step in ending the country's civil war. Helicoptering with his entourage into the capital of San Salvador (in unmarked troop carriers seconded from the U.S. forces on maneuvers in neighboring Honduras), Shultz was the guest of Provisional President Alvaro Magaña at a lunch attended by the six candidates in the presidential race. Among them were the two front runners: former President José Napoleón Duarte, a Christian Democrat appreciated in Washington for his moderation, and Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of the ultrarightist Nationalist Republican Alliance...
...policies in El Salvador. Since 1979, right-wing death squads that are backed, and in many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return, Iklé declared that "the death squads of the violent right and the death...
...Bogotá talks produced little progress in ending El Salvador's four-year-old civil war. Representing the provisional government of President Alvaro Magaña, the Peace Commission insisted that the insurgents take part in the national elections that are scheduled for early next year. The guerrillas, however, were still holding out for a settlement in which they would be given a share of power before having to participate in any elections. They also demanded that future meetings be held in El Salvador, a move that would give them added legitimacy. The leftist coalition predicted that talks would...
...Atlantic. The Seventh Fleet carrier Ranger and its seven escort ships, which left the Pacific coast late last week, are due to be replaced soon by the battleship New Jersey. Before the Seventh Fleet ships left they displayed their firepower off the Nicaraguan shore. With Salvadoran President Alvaro Magaña aboard, the Ranger sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near by the destroyer Fife fired off a fusillade of 75-lb. shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they...
Stone went to San José to persuade the rebels to enter into direct negotiations with Magaña. U.S. officials had said previously that if the guerrillas would agree to a political settlement in which their share of power would depend on their performance in elections, the U.S. might do something useful for them: use its influence with the Salvadoran government to postpone the elections from November or December until a later date, thereby giving the guerrillas a better chance to make the transition from fighters to candidates...