Word: salvador
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bound for Nicaragua, had loaded a cargo of four Mi- 17 Hip helicopters at Port Leningrad. The 38 Hips previously shipped to the Sandinistas had been used to devastating effect in the war against the contra rebels. It now looked as if Managua would get more. In neighboring El Salvador, meanwhile, Marxist guerrillas had launched their strongest offensive in years, managing to trap twelve American Green Berets in a luxury hotel. President Bush responded by dispatching a contingent of Delta Force commandos. U.S. intervention seemed a distinct possibility. Then on Nov. 25 came an even greater shock for Washington...
...free election in February, and the Sandinistas peacefully transferred power to the opposition that had defeated them, the superpowers had reason to celebrate. They had shown they could work together to solve the toughest conflicts. That cooperation is continuing now in an effort to end the war in El Salvador, and eventually it might help solve the thorniest problem of all in the hemisphere: the rancorous dispute between the U.S. and Cuba...
...Francisco-based peace group called Neighbor to Neighbor and corporate giant Procter & Gamble, whose Folgers brand is the top-selling U.S. coffee. The 30- sec. spot, which aired earlier this month on CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston, accuses Procter & Gamble of prolonging the ten-year civil war in El Salvador by buying Salvadoran coffee beans, the country's leading export, and thereby supporting the right-wing government of President Alfredo Cristiani...
Such support is anathema to Neighbor to Neighbor, which opposes U.S. policy in El Salvador. The protest group, with a national membership of 52,000, argues that El Salvador's $400 million worth of annual coffee exports mainly benefits a handful of wealthy families and helps finance death squads and military atrocities against civilians. "There's blood on that coffee," says Fred Ross, the group's director. "Action by corporations like Procter & Gamble could send economic shock waves into El Salvador and force a negotiated settlement...
...Washington, Congress could debate a boycott of its own this week, when the House is expected to vote on a measure to speed up the Salvadoran peace process. The bill would cut in half this year's $85 million of scheduled military aid to El Salvador if the Cristiani government appears to be stalling in talks to end the war with the country's leftist guerrillas...