Word: salvadoran
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...pounded the area with heavy artillery, while support aircraft rained down phosphorous bombs and 100-lb. and 500-lb. high-explosive charges. Their quarry was a guerrilla contingent that had turned Guazapa into a formidable stronghold. The attack aircraft were hit by heavy ground fire from machine guns, while Salvadoran army helicopters ferrying in troops took such concentrated fire that they tried to remain on the ground no longer than 30 seconds. At week's end, the fighting raged on. The army claimed to have suffered 16 dead and 31 wounded in the action, but the casualty toll...
...this mood of mounting concern, President Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative speech was the best news the Salvadoran government had received in weeks. Reagan's promises of long-term economic help for the entire Central American region, plus the warning that the U.S. will do "whatever is prudent and necessary to ensure the peace and security of the Caribbean area," noticeably buoyed President Duarte. The Salvadoran leader appeared on television to announce that he had sent his personal felicitaciones to the White House...
...government forces-and even the most conservative of estimates attribute 6000 deaths to Duarte's regime last year alone--at least 25 guerrillas sympathizers spring up. It is painfuly clear now, as it should have been long ago, that reform, not repression, is the only way out of the Salvadoran nightmare...
...same conclusion was reached by another visiting Congressional team, Representatives Tom Harkin of Iowa and James L. Oberstar of Minnesota, both Democrats, and Republican Jim Coyne of Pennsylvania. Criticizing the regime's "inhumane" military tactics at a news conference, Oberstar said flatly that the Salvadoran government "should not have our military support...
...NAIL that sticks up," a Japanese saying warns, "will be hammered down." Robert E. White, former United States Ambassador to EI Salvador, learned that lesson well last January. White told reporters that the Salvadoran government, contrary to its official declarations, had failed to conduct a "serious investigation" into the horrifying murders of four American missionaries. After publicly speaking out against additional U.S. military aid to EI Salvador, White was immediately relieved of his post by the Reagan Administration. To add insult to injury, after testifying candidly before a House subcommittee. White was "retired" from the Foreign Service at the request...