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...gathered in the columned halls of the presidential palace in Bogotá, Colombia, to await the outcome of the second face-to-face meeting between representatives of El Salvador's warring factions, rumors spread that the talks were on the verge of collapse. So when delegates from the Salvadoran Peace Commission and from the five-faction guerrilla movement that opposes the government emerged from the negotiating chamber nearly 3 ½ hours later, the sense of relief was almost palpable. "The door is open for future meetings," said a smiling Colombian President Belisario Betancur as he posed with the seven...
There are less than 40 American soldiers in EI Salvador. They are non-combat troops serving as military instructors for the EI Salvadoran army. Not a man has fired a pistol in battle, no causalities have been taken, and our involvement there, at least in manpower, appears to be as large as it's going to get. We have 1200 U.S. Marines in Lebanon Nearly forty of them have been wounded. Four have been killed. They have been ordered by the President to fire in response to attack. The admirals and captains commanding the ships that make up the American...
...further signal of the Administration's determination to maintain a hard line against Central American leftists, the State Department last week denied a visa to Ruben Zamora, a relatively moderate member of the F.D.R.-F.M.L.N. coalition that is fighting the Salvadoran government. Zamora, who has made frequent visits to Washington to woo members of Congress and has met in the past months with U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone, had been invited to speak in the U.S. The Administration's excuse was that Zamora had publicly welcomed the killing of a U.S. military adviser in El Salvador last...
Meanwhile, the Administration could be heartened by the results of some investigative reporting in Nicaragua. Newsmen visiting an island near a small fishing village on the northwestern Zamora coast, just 40 miles from the Salvadoran border, uncovered the remains of what appears to have been a depot for smuggling arms to guerrillas in El Salvador, including a Sandinista army banner, rifle shell casings and a radio antenna. The discovery buttressed U.S. claims that Nicaragua routinely supplies the Salvadoran rebels by boat across the Gulf of Fonseca...
Israel is a "surrogate" force for the United States, Chomsky said, supporting "rightist repressive regimes with American funding and with tacit American approval." Spurred by a soaring debt and a heavy dependence on U.S. aid, Israel has supported Gautemalan. El Salvadoran and Honduras conservatives, even though these governments are akin to "Heinrich Himmler's legacies," he said...