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...chunky, cigar-chomping Hinton has been in El Salvador for two years. His unusual blend of realism, toughness, charm and candor earned him wide respect among the Salvadorans, and he seemed to be carrying out Washington's policy with great skill. He irked the White House recently by publicly scolding the Salvadoran government on its lax prosecution of human rights abuses, but did so at Enders' urging...
...have become a major worry for Nicaragua. Said Ramirez: "What we would like to talk about with the U.S. is a mutual commitment"-an end to U.S. backing of the contras in exchange for the Sandinistas' stopping any support that the U.S. can prove they are providing for Salvadoran guerrillas based in Nicaragua. It remains questionable just what the Sandinistas would accept as proof and how they could be kept to the terms of a possible deal...
...Sandinistas might be budging came as the Administration was facing an increasingly stubborn Congress over the persistent question of whether the U.S. should be financing the contras at all. Many Congressmen think not. Their concern was heightened last week by the assassination of Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger in the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador. But there is growing anxiety among other members of Congress that they may be blamed if Central America goes Communist. Before last week's assassination of Commander Schaufelberger, the House Intelligence Committee voted to cut off U.S. covert aid to the estimated 7,000 contras...
...Committee opted for a less generous compromise. It endorsed a plan worked out by Democrat Dante Fascell to give Reagan only $65 million in military aid for each of the next three fiscal years. It also attached eleven pages of conditions designed to curb human rights abuses by the Salvadoran government and to bring about "a dialogue, in good faith and without preconditions," between the government and the guerrillas. The aim is to achieve "an equitable political solution to the conflict." If the government refuses to participate, U.S. aid would be cut off within 90 days; if the guerrillas balk...
Schneider said the Administration could live with the conditions. He contended that the Salvadoran government could engage in talks but still fend off the guerrillas' previously stated demands to reorganize the government to include them, in effect canceling the results of last year's elections, in which they had refused to participate. The Administration has backed the government of Alvaro Alfredo Magafta Borja in its resistance to such "power sharing," and has suggested limiting any dialogue to a discussion of the ground rules under which both sides could participate in elections...