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...challenge to the Administration's aid proposal was put most bluntly by Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee. In an emotional Senate speech, Inouye disputed the Administration's thesis that the Salvadoran guerrillas represent a Cuban-and Soviet-backed military thrust to produce a revolutionary domino effect in the U.S.'s backyard. He described the 22,000-member Salvadoran armed forces as violent and corrupt, and urged the Salvadoran government to open negotiations "with all parties to the conflict" before any additional U.S. military assistance is provided...
Opponents of the Administration's Salvadoran policy have been notably vague about the kind of negotiations they favor. Many, however, seem to agree with the rebels that bargaining should include the question of power sharing...
Much of the responsibility for the current confusion rests with the Administration. Shultz and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders have insisted that U.S. policy has not changed since 1981, when former Secretary of State Alexander Haig first cast the Salvadoran struggle as an East-West conflict. The chief elements of U.S. strategy have been to buttress the Salvadoran government with guns, money and American military advisers (who currently number around 37), while encouraging political and economic reforms as well as an improvement in El Salvador's doleful human rights record...
...suffered two more blows on the human rights front last week. A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...news from other battlefronts has been no better. The Salvadoran armed forces, led by Defense Minister José GuillermoGarcia, have shown neither resolve nor proficiency. Ignoring U.S. advice, the Salvadoran military has wasted its energy in useless sweeps of remote hinterland areas, while the guerrillas have scored easy but psychologically important victories by briefly occupying towns in the country's economic heartland. A guerrilla campaign of economic devastation continues practically undeterred; last week much of the country was plunged once again into temporary darkness after guerrilla forces blew up a series of electrical power lines...