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...three-year-old group promotes a better understanding of Mexican society and culture among members of the Harvard community, according to outgoing president Alejandro Ramirez Magana...
...much concern as the Salvadoran military. Alarmed that right-wing violence might endanger hopes of political reform in El Salvador and alienate congressional critics in the U.S., the Reagan Administration dispatched Vice President George Bush to San Salvador last month to let the government of interim President Alvaro Magana know in no uncertain terms that the U.S. wanted suspected ringleaders to be transferred out of the army and other sensitive posts or sent into exile...
...rise in terror reflects the growing frustrations of the far right, which includes powerful members of El Salvador's wealthy landowning class. They see their influence slipping as the U.S.-backed government of Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magana continues to press for land reform and peaceful elections...
...expected the next stop to be congenial, and it was not. From the moment Kissinger raised the subject on his arrival in El Salvador, the panel hammered away at one issue: human rights. The commission met with Interim President Alvaro Magana. Kissinger stated that the U.S. depended on El Salvador as a front line against Cuban-and Nicaraguan-inspired subversion in the region. But the commission members flatly condemned the country's abysmal human rights record (see box). In a tense confrontation with right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland angrily questioned...
...gain control of key ministries after the March 1982 elections, and it has also been unable to derail the government's programs to redistribute land more equitably. Making matters worse, in the right's view, the Salvadoran Peace Commission, sponsored by the interim administration of President Alvaro Magana, has begun a "dialogue" with representatives of leftist guerrillas...