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Soviet and Cuban involvement in El Salvador, for example, has become increasingly evident in recent weeks. Documents captured by Salvadoran authorities describe a trip by guerrilla leaders to the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, Ethiopia and several Eastern European countries, during which they obtained commitments from Communist leaders for weapons and uniforms. According to U.S. intelligence officials, deliveries are handled by Cuba, often through Nicaragua. The Administration intends to make Soviet-bloc support of the guerrillas in El Salvador a major issue in East-West relations. A delegation of top State Department and CIA officials, led by Lawrence Eagleburger, Haig...
...raised serious new questions about the official investigation into the brutal murder late last year of three American nuns and a lay religious worker in El Salvador. But TIME has learned that while the inquiry has turned up an impressive amount of hard evidence about what took place, Salvadoran authorities are stonewalling, stubbornly refusing to press the inquiry to the point where their own security forces might become implicated...
When the American women missionaries were found shot to death last December, U.S. officials cited "circumstantial evidence of possible security force involvement." But Salvadoran police and military officers dragged their feet in trying to track down the killers of the women, prompting the Carter Administration to suspend all U.S. aid to El Salvador until a "complete, thorough and professional investigation" of the murders had been undertaken. A four-man Salvadoran commission of inquiry was finally appointed, and a team of FBI agents was dispatched to help...
...with hypocrisy for supporting a country that the Organization of American States this year named this hemisphere's worst offender of human rights. Despite their minimal influence on capital politics, leftist groups in the United States have been extremely vocal, demanding the government redeem its foolhardy betrayal of the Salvadoran forces backed by the populus. And church groups--claiming solidarity with the repressed church of El Salvador--have activated their lobbies on the Hill. In on form or another, the document echoes all these charges...
...senior revolutionary leader of the F.M.L.N., the joint military command of the five major antigovernment guerrilla groups, is Salvador Cayetano Carpio, 61, who rose through trade union ranks to become secretary-general of the Salvadoran Communist Party. In 1970 he broke away to pursue armed revolution. He formed the Forces of Popular Liberation, the largest guerrilla army operating under the F.M.L.N. umbrella. Cayetano owes his survival to his emphasis on security. Before their amalgamation with the other groups a year ago, Cayetano and his subordinates wore hoods so that they were not known even to each other. Cayetano himself...