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Your article on who is killing whom in El Salvador [Feb. 22] questioned the objectivity of human rights organizations in regard to that country and suggested that Amnesty International was "forced to rely on data supplied by the Salvadoran [human rights] organizations...
Amnesty International has examined information and eyewitness testimony from all sections of Salvadoran society. It has recently published evidence collected by one of its fact-finding missions that visited seven refugee camps in neighboring countries. The mission reported mass killing and torture of noncombatants by Salvadoran government forces. Reliable information reaching Amnesty International shows the continuation of these abuses...
...possibility that the U.S. might want to establish a Cuban connection was particularly intriguing. Washington has long insisted that Havana's efforts to export its revolution, with the help of its Nicaraguan ally, is a prime cause of the four-year-old Salvadoran civil war. In early March, Secretary of State Alexander Haig secretly dispatched his favorite troubleshooter, General Vernon Walters, to Havana to press this point. Castro reportedly told Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA, that while Cuba supports the Salvadoran leftists, it is not currently supplying them with arms. Castro expressed his readiness to address...
...frank conversations." U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick described Ortega's charges as "paranoid and ridiculous," but reiterated the U.S. commitment to negotiate. She cited a five-point U.S. plan, outlined by Enders last August in Managua, that includes a mutual nonaggression treaty and an end to Nicaraguan support of Salvadoran rebels...
...table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte's hard line against dealing with the guerrillas, Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins, said last week that his country did not rule out negotiations once a newly elected constituent assembly...