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...reaction of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran armed forces was slow and clumsy. The day after the guerrillas began their occupation, U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets appeared over Berlin and began to strafe and rocket the town. At least two bombs were dropped a few blocks from the central plaza. Floods of refugees started to stream from their homes carrying sacks of food, clothing and hammocks, as Red Cross ambulances, their sirens screaming, crept through the streets...
...rights situation is improving in El Salvador, is misleading as well as illogical. Recent reports by independent human rights monitoring groups like Amnesty International indicate that violent abuses by the military have not decreased in the past six months, and indeed may have increased. In addition, the notoriously deficient Salvadoran criminal justice system recently gave two indications particularly noteworthy for Americans that little progress is being made. El Salvador released two Salvadoran officers implicated in the murder of two American land redistribution consultants and reversed a court decision that found several Salvadoran soldiers guilty of the murders of four American...
...United States has the possibility to exert effective and positive leverage on the Salvadoran government with military aid. The threat that such aid will be held back can force the regime in El Salvador to crack down on human rights abuses. But Reagan's certification decision should make it obvious that El Salvador can have its cake...
...bizarre rebellion ended as suddenly as it had begun. But when Lieut. Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa Pérez gave up his six-day mutiny against Salvadoran Minister of Defense General José Guillermo Garcia last week, the damage had been done. The incident highlighted what many analysts feel is a troubling obstacle to U.S. aims in the embattled Central American nation: a lack of discipline on the part of the Salvadoran military. All too often, its leaders seem to be more concerned with internal rivalries than with fighting left-wing guerrillas united under the banner of the Farabundo Mart...
...involvement in El Salvador and land reform, while D'Aubuisson has not. At the same time, U.S. officials feared that Ochoa, a military classmate of D'Aubuisson's, was being used by D'Aubuisson in order to force Garcia out as Defense Minister. Some Salvadorans looked for a less complicated motive. Said a military analyst: "This is a question of two very ambitious, vain men. In the Salvadoran army, once a commander gets a little too popular, a little too visible, he gets dragged down, or else he becomes a threat. Tigers...