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Ever since 13 relaxed patrons, including four U.S. Marine embassy guards, were machine-gunned to death by guerrillas in San Salvador's Zona Rosa cafe last June, American officials have been talking about retribution. A reward of $100,000 was even offered by the State Department for the perpetrators. When pressed last week about why nothing more had been done, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger made what seemed a surprising revelation. "The Salvadoran government with our assistance," he claimed, "has taken care of--in one way or another--a number of people who participated in that killing." About two weeks after...
...spokesman said, more conclusively, that the rebels captured and killed "were not specifically the ones responsible." With that, Weinberger's office backpedaled a bit. "He was not intending to say that we had identified the actual triggermen," a spokesman explained. At week's end the State Department said the reward offer for those who actually carried out the killings was still in effect. SPACE Challenger's Greatest Challenge...
...antitank mines. Brown has organized a dozen teams to train the Salvadoran army and loaned nine staffers to teach the contras fighting the Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
...last week also issued a warning directly to the regime in Nicaragua, which was celebrating the sixth anniversary of its Sandinista revolution, saying that it would be held responsible for future attacks against Americans in the region. The State Department did not say why the first offer of a reward came in response to the Salvadoran shooting rather than to the hijacking of the TWA passenger jet to Beirut last month, after which a reward was discussed but never offered. ESPIONAGE A Family of Smugglers...
Sensitive to charges of official complicity in the four murders, the Port Elizabeth police have launched an investigation, and the government has offered a $500 reward for information on the killers. But black residents are skeptical that justice will be served. Last week they took matters into their own hands and initiated the boycott of white stores. The boycott committee also drew up a list of demands that included the return of three other U.D.F. leaders, who disappeared on May 8, and the withdrawal of government security forces from the townships...