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...tenuous case can be made that the Administration is taking a harder line on human rights excesses in El Salvador. But the White House's recent attempts to sell aims to the rightist regime in Guatemala and destabilize the leftist government in Nicaragua are telling signs of the President's dangerous mindset...
Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism--particularly from rightist death squads--continues to plague the country. Reagan's desire--announced during his trip--to send more guns to Guatemala would only make the situation worse...
...Rios Montt has been widely accused by human rights monitoring groups of continuing the campaign of murder and repression against leftist opponents begun by his predecessor. General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia Amnesty International, for example, says the number of murders carried out by rightist death squads since Rios Montt took over tops...
GENERAL Efrain Rios Montt, catapulted to power last spring through a coup, is a born-again Christian. The rightist leader worked as an evangelist before assuming his current duties and was affiliated with the Church of the Word, which has links to the Gospel Outreach group in Eureka, California...
...feminism and abortion, and even some racist-tinged critiques of affirmative action. But the editors, diverse as they are, trade notes and have come to constitute an informal network. That delights Columnist William Buckley, a major patron of the Dartmouth Review and a hero to most of the rightist student editors. Buckley is enthusiastic: "I have for 30 years maintained that the genuine dissidents at liberal colleges are conservatives...