Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political and military analysts are increasingly pessimistic about the corrosive psychological effects of the drawn-out fighting on the armed forces that buttress the civilian-military government of Christian Democrat President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said a senior U.S. military analyst: "We are trying our damnedest to keep this enthusiasm up. That's why we sent those helicopters in so quickly." Warned a high-ranking U.S. specialist on Central America: "The momentum has gone, and we are within inches of losing control over the situation entirely...
...Salvador's four-year-old war against 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist guerrillas, members of the government's 22,000-man security forces were being brought to judicial account over the deaths of noncombatants. Even before the judge's decision, Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, in a national television address, called the men "the only and the true guilty ones" in the crimes. Duarte seemed particularly anxious to squelch accusations that the murders might have been ordered by higher authorities in the Salvadoran military...
...past few weeks, Americans have been asking themselves some urgent and difficult questions about the ugly civil war in El Salvador. Will the latest guerrilla offensive succeed in disrupting and discrediting the elections scheduled for next month? Will the beleaguered civilian President, José Napoleon Duarte, be able to stave off the leftist challenge? Can he also rein in the right-wing military leaders with whom he shares what remains of central power-and therefore with whom he shares responsibility for atrocities committed by the security forces? And what can the U.S. do? Can it simultaneously foster land reform...
...statement was buttressed by the firmly held position of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The Administration's top diplomat bluntly asserted before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. "will do whatever is necessary" to prevent the downfall of the Salvadoran regime headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said Haig: "I am not about to lay out a litany of actions that may or may not take place. We are actively considering a whole range of options-political, economic and security...
...focused than that of the majority opinion, can help temper U.S. conduct in El Salvador. Critics must insure that El Salvador remains a non-military political problem and the solution primarily a political-economic one. Specifically they can help insure that we use our support of centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte to pressure him to halt the excesses of the far right, plan for free elections, and go ahead with far-reaching land reforms...