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...before three U.S. congressional committees. Enders' statement was buttressed by the firmly held position of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The Administration's top diplomat bluntly asserted before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. "will do whatever is necessary" to prevent the downfall of the Salvadoran regime headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte. Said Haig: "I am not about to lay out a litany of actions that may or may not take place. We are actively considering a whole range of options-political, economic and security...
...appalling human rights record, one of the worst in the Western Hemisphere, Congress last December decided to attach special conditions to the assistance money. It demanded that Reagan certify that the Duarte government was making a "concerted, significant effort" to improve the human rights climate and that the Salvadorans were achieving "continued progress" in implementing political and economic reforms. Congress also wanted assurances that the Salvadoran government was making "good faith efforts" to investigate and prosecute the murders there of four American churchwomen and two American aid officials a year...
...murder" by armed men in military uniform, actions the Duarte government defends as part of its progressive "land reform" policy. Recent press accounts have suggested new episodes--of 926 civilians massacred in one province less than two months ago, and of 19 lined up and shot in a San Salvadoran suburb early morning. Administration officials can dispute these accounts as propaganda supporting the rebels who have little to gain from under counting civilians killed. And they can voice their doubts about the Salvadoran left, especially since the dream of freedom in Sandinistan Nicaraugua seems less than realized...
...military right. As easy, perhaps, as to invoke the response of the implacable American liberal and to call American aid to El Salvador emblematic of "another Vietnam" a military embroilment in a national conflict the United States has no purpose pushing. Trite perhaps, for the troubles of the Salvadoran people might bear little or no similarity to those that plagued millions in Vietnam. But until we can hear their voices, telling us who is right and who is wrong in El Salvador, no other response seems quite as sane...
...nation to choose its own destiny. They would do this as that Central American nation descends further and further into totalitarian rule. Whether one views the situation from a moral perspective or one of realpolitik, our imperative is clear: to do what we can to ensure the Salvadoran people a voice in their own affairs...