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There is no proof Nicaragua supplies arms to the Salvadoran revolutionaries. While Managua clearly sympathizes with the guerillas. It has reportedly sponsored joint patrols with the Honduras to counter any weapons smuggling...
Finally, the Reagan Administration certified that the Salvadoran government made "good faith efforts to investigate the murders of the six U.S. citizens"--four American religious women and two American agrarian advisors--who were killed in December 1980 and January 1981. The Salvadoran government has made progress in prosecuting five national guardsman accused of murdering three American nuns and a lay missionary with a sixth accomplice turning state's evidence The trial appears to be timed to influence American political and Congressional opinion but there is hope that some justice will be done in but one of the thousands of tragedies...
...spite of Congressional initiatives, an increasingly vocal opposition movement in the United States and a hopeless and spiraling escalation of violence in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration continues to support a military solution to the Salvadoran conflict. The Administration recently cent $55 million in emergency military assistance to the Salvadoran junta and has initiated a program in which the U.S. Army is training 1600 Salvadoran soldiers and officers in the United States. Military and to El Salvador could rise to over $100 million next year, accompanied by an increase in the number of military advisors...
President Reagan certification of military and amounts to a deliberate misrepresentation of the situation The significance of this policy goes beyond providing weapons to the El Salvadoran military On February 11 White stated in the Boston Globe that "the military and economic elites of El Salvador have developed their own rationale to justify their systematic extermination of political leaders, union members, clergy, journalists and campesinos They insist that the Reagan leader ship secretly agrees with their terrorist methods ... President Reagan breathed new life into this chilling theory when he certified that the Salvadoran military was making a concerted effort...
...Millicent Fenwick (R-N.J.) has issued statements against the Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador Sen. Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.), after a four-day tour of Central America, stated that he is convinced that 70 percent of the killings in the nation have been committed by the Salvadoran military...