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...hard to understand how people could support our conduct in El Salvador, a nation where the government and officially tolerated right-wing hoodlums kill thousands and hold millions more in terror. It is moving testimony to the courage of the El Salvadoran people that their resistance to this tyranny continues, indeed prospers, despite the huge influx of American military technology...
Reagan burns 1,000,000s of tax dollars as he kills 1000s of Salvadoran peasants! Henry Ratliff...
...notes that Brezhnev did not even mention El Salvador in his speech last week, and predicts: "They may let it go down the tubes. It was a minor gamble for them, and it's not paying off. They will always be able to blame the defeat of the Salvadoran Communists on Yankee imperialism." Still, Bushnell had the best one-word description of the Administration's course: "Risky...
...brutal civil war in El Salvador was between battles last week. In the only major skirmish, Salvadoran soldiers clashed with armed teen-agers sympathetic to the rebel cause in the village of San Lorenzo. The toll, according to an army major: 40 guerrillas and one soldier dead. From their hideouts in remote areas near the border with Honduras, leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front emerged briefly to blockade roads and blow up a number of bridges and power lines. Meanwhile, death squads of both right and left still roamed the land, murdering anyone they suspected...
Since their "final offensive" last January was blunted by the Salvadoran military and by lack of popular support, the guerrillas have made no headway in their struggle to overthrow the civilian-military junta that first took power in October 1979. Indeed, the guerrillas' attempts to wreck the nation's economy by cutting town water supplies and blowing up bridges have cost them the support of many people. The town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000) is without water, and San Miguel (pop. 113,000) has neither electricity nor water...