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When some Senators insisted that military aid should be linked to much greater progress by the Salvadoran government in stopping the indiscriminate killing of civilians by its soldiers and in punishing any transgressors, Shultz surprised them with his harshest public criticism so far: "You cannot get me to sit here and defend what has happened under the judicial system in El Salvador," he declared. "I won't do it. If they don't clean up this act, the support here is going...
...Senate subcommittee was far from totally satisfied with what Shultz offered. "We condemn their corruption and denial of human rights," said Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii about the Salvadoran government. "But these abominations still persist. Why do we not lower the boom?" Complained Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "El Salvador is just thumbing their nose at us. They're saying give us dollars and go to hell." Then the subcommittee, which has a 5-to-4 Republican majority, voted 7 to 2 to let the Administration shift the full $60 million to El Salvador, but only...
...next, the Administration had got off easily. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, members decided by "consensus" rather than a recorded vote to let Reagan transfer only $30 million to El Salvador. In addition, they called for "unconditional negotiations" in El Salvador and asked the Administration to urge the Salvadoran government to speed prosecution of those suspected of killing the American women...
Complicating matters for the Administration is the fact that the Salvadoran insurgents have repeatedly said they are willing to negotiate. The most explicit offer came last October, when Guillermo Manuel Ungo, president of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, a group of five leftist parties now allied with the guerrillas, offered "unconditional" discussions with the Reagan Administration in order...
...reality, the guerrillas' position is hardly unconditional. It consists of five major points: 1) a demand to restructure the Salvadoran government in order to include both the guerrillas and their more moderate allies, thereby canceling the results of last year's election; 2) dismantling the 10,000-member Salvadoran internal security forces (which are widely believed to be responsible for the majority of the country's human rights atrocities) and including guerrilla regulars within the Salvadoran army; 3) a continuation, and possible extension, of the U.S.-backed economic reforms in El Salvador; 4) adoption by El Salvador...