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...Pope's visit did offer Salvadorans the promise, at least, of a day without gunfire. A spokesman for the five-member coalition of Marxist-led guerrillas announced at a Mexico City press conference that they planned to honor John Paul's pilgrimage with a cease-fire "to create conditions favorable to the message he will bring." The government, in response, said that military forces would not shoot unless they were fired upon. But the truce would soon end. Exiled Salvadoran Leader Rubén Zamora said that insurgents had received better weapons and would step up activities once the Pope left...
...maximum of 55, together with an expansion of their duties. Finally, an American envoy was dispatched to El Salvador to persuade the country's leaders to advance the date of presidential elections from March 1984 to some time later this year in order to dramatize the Salvadoran commitment to democracy. Said a White House official: "It could be just a matter of weeks before that government could go under altogether...
...West conflict. After Haig left office last summer, the Administration lowered the volume on its talk about Soviet subversion and the threat posed to the U.S. Yet officials made it clear last week that the Administration's basic view on Central America remained the same. Reagan depicted the Salvadoran conflict in its starkest ideological colors. "We believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line in a battle that is really aimed at the very heart of the Western Hemisphere, and eventually at us," he told an audience at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club...
Unfortunately, the Administration damaged its own cause with perplexing, often contradictory, statements. There was much confusion about whether Reagan did indeed plan to send more advisers. Washington had hoped that its idea for early elections would be seen solely as a Salvadoran initiative, but the top U.S. official entrusted with the negotiations blabbed about them within earshot of a reporter. The bungling made a skittish Congress even more skeptical of White House plans. Conceded an Administration official: "This is an unfortunate way to do business. We're talking first and deciding what we mean afterward...
...isthmus, including Mexico, "with which we have a long border." The testimony of the usually cautious Shultz surprised reporters and Congressmen alike and served as perhaps the best evidence of the Administration's tougher stance. Nestor D. Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary, told House members that the Salvadoran army might run out of ammunition in 30 days. William Schneider Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, confirmed the alarming statistic, which the El Salvador military had denied, by saying it would prove true if "Nicaragua decided to invade with a 40,000-man army." Gerry Studds, Democratic Congressman...