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From the beginning Lefever was clearly the wrong choice for the job. A self-professed "do-gooder" who has worked for various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976. He advocates making a distinction between "authoritarian" governments of the right (for example, South Africa, South Korea, Chile), which repress dissent, and putatively worse "totalitarian" governments of the left (notably the Soviet Union), which deny both political and economic freedom. Lefever had written that human rights questions should not interfere...
Each panelist presented his view as compromises between all of the factions in El Salvador, but John McAward, associate director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, attacked the spokesmen for the Reagan administration, saying. "If this is a civilian-military government. I'd hate to see what a rightist government would look like...
They were not disappointed. Chief Delegate Michael Novak, a neoconservative scholar at Washington's American Enterprise Institute, set out to assure the parley that the U.S. was not about to abandon human rights concerns. Novak made the difference clear: rather than criticizing only rightist regimes for human rights violations-a course the Carter Administration was often accused of following at the expense of U.S. strategic interest-he gave notice that the U.S. would not tolerate the flouting of human rights in Communist regimes. "Abuse of human rights is abominable," Novak declared, "but we want the same standards applied everywhere...
...theater, but many were critical. A number of Western European delegates accused the U.S. of a certain reverse selectivity in the new, professedly evenhanded U.S. approach to human rights. Said one: "I would have liked the U.S. retribution against the Soviets better if it had also included the rightist military dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere." When the U.S. abstained from voting for a Dutch-initiated resolution calling for cessation of all arms traffic into El Salvador and a special U.N. investigation of human rights violations there, the attitude toward the Americans turned distinctly chilly...
...Deputies took the invaders for Basque terrorists. That notion was soon dispelled when they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 49, a notorious far-rightist who had already served seven months for a stillborn 1978 plot to kidnap key Cabinet members and spark a military takeover. Neither Tejero's methods nor goals seemed to have changed much since then. Brandishing his heavy service revolver, he commandeered the podium and issued a peremptory statement...