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Reagan told De la Madrid last week that the U.S. would welcome further diplomatic assistance in the region. Mexico's quiet diplomacy was helpful in arranging the meeting between U.S. Ambassador Richard Stone and exiled Salvadoran Opposition Leader Ruben Zamora in Colombia last month. Sepulveda has hinted that the same communication lines are still open to broaden U.S. contacts with other Salvadoran guerrilla leaders. Whatever the differences that divide, Mexico will have to play a role commensurate with its size and prominence...
...route across the Atlantic. The Seventh Fleet carrier Ranger and its seven escort ships, which left the Pacific coast late last week, are due to be replaced soon by the battleship New Jersey. Before the Seventh Fleet ships left they displayed their firepower off the Nicaraguan shore. With Salvadoran President Alvaro Magaña aboard, the Ranger sent up 16 of its planes for roaring aerobatics, with bombing (500-lb. ordnance) and strafing practice, while near by the destroyer Fife fired off a fusillade of 75-lb. shells. An obviously impressed Magaña gushed, "I am very glad they...
Moreover, Shultz insisted, the Administration's muscle flexing was beginning to pay off. Until recently, said the Secretary, there had been "no incentive" for the Sandinistas, the Salvadoran guerrillas, the Cubans or the Soviets to believe that "anything credible" stood in the way of the "imposition of Communist rule by armed force in El Salvador and the rest of Central America." Now, said Shultz, these countries could clearly see that "a victory by the far left through force is not in the cards...
...after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations that are fighting under a joint banner in El Salvador. In the past, the U.S. had refused to deal directly with the Salvadoran guerrillas, arguing that to do so would undermine the legitimacy of the U.S.-supported government in El Salvador...
Stone tried but failed to meet with Salvadoran rebels in Costa Rica last month. This time the successful go-between was Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas. The setting was the austerely modern living room of the presidential palace in Bogotá. Betancur first greeted Stone, then introduced him to Zamora and withdrew from the room. What the two men said during the next 90 minutes is not known, but both sides subsequently hinted that another meeting, involving several other Salvadoran leftist leaders, may take place later this month...