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...least for the moment, the war itself has been overshadowed by random attacks on civilians by right-wing and leftist death squads. The rightist squads are often aided by members of the government security forces. Many of them are said to be receiving funds from exiled Salvadorans in Miami and elsewhere who vehemently oppose the junta's land reforms, which have led to the expropriation of some large ranches, and hope to see Duarte's government fall...
...bits among the gang in the station house, an interesting doomed romance between Newman and a Puerto Rican nurse (Rachel Ticotin), and some all right, brutal but brief action. Beyond that, the movie takes a liberal attitude toward its milieu, falling neither into despair nor into the tough-minded rightist posturing that marks most police epics, which tend to be cut along the Dirty Harry bias...
...path to El Salvador's all-out civil war, however, intensified in October 1979 when a group of "progressive" military officers overthrew the rightist military government and formed a coalition with several leftist political parties. The new government, backed by the United States, pledged widespread agrarian reform and aid to the country's six million poor. It also promised to put an end to repression and human rights abuses by the armed forces, and simultaneously to supress the leftist guerrillas they felt were a danger to the state...
...struck at the end of November, when six leftist leaders were gunned down in the country's capital, San Salvador. This incident was closely followed by the murder of three American nuns, an event which prompted former president Jimmy Carter to suspend aid to El Salvador. In both cases, rightist military forces and military officials were suspected. The U.S. government initiated an investigation of the nuns' slaying. But despite inconclusive findings and the reported opposition of former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, Carter resumed both economic and military support to Duarte shortly before leaving office...
...least, one must agree with Kirkpatrick when she says that rightist authoritarian regimes are more likely to be democratic than, say, Cuba or China. At present, the possibility of, say, Cuba or Poland becoming free and democratic is certainly absurd; yet in the past few years three Latin American countries, and only one with the prompting of President Carter--the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Peru--have all peacefully discarded their military regimes...