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...stratagem was risky, audacious-and brilliant in its simplicity. In a few sentences uttered before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City last week, Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte pierced the psychological curtain that has divided his nation through nearly five years of civil war. During a 55-min. address, the stocky, dynamic Christian Democrat announced that he would travel unarmed to meet with his Marxist-Leninist foes, the guerrilla commanders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.). At the meeting, he said, he would discuss the incorporation of the insurgents "into the process...
...second place, any group with such a hold on all sources of power is unlikely voluntarily to endanger its rule at the polls. Similarly with the trumpeted acceptance of the Contadora draft treaty--why should the Sandinistas accept any outside limitations on their support of El Salvadoran rebels solely out of the goodness of their hearts? In both cases, it is American-backed military pressure, not talks, which has pushed the Sandinistas, however slightly, toward both peace and pluralism...
...region. Even Cuba seems to offer the possibility for rapprochement. Against such a record the constant liberal clamor for talks loses cogency. Why talk with someone who has no reason to listen? Ronald Reagan and his Administration have provided forceful incentive for both the Sandinistas and the Salvadoran right to sit up and pay attention...
...Reagan Administration, bristling militarism, and from the Sandinista regime, increasing political repression. Surprisingly enough, it is in El Salvador, that supposed hotbed of extremism, where the sides are suddenly talking conciliation and understanding. And while the sudden rush to rapprochement between the government of Jose Napoleon Duarte and Salvadoran rebels may eventually do nothing to end peacably the five-year civil war, it at least points the way to the only kind of approach able to lead Central America's political quagmire...
...power-sharing advanced by the guerrillas; he knows too well the scant success brooked by moderates in sharing rule with Marxist guerillas. But at the same time the guerillas are understandably wary about answering Duarte's call to join elections; they know too well the propensity of the Salvadoran military to shoot up anyone to the left of Roberto D'Aubisson. Even Duarte's meeting with the rebels at La Palma has been met only with the snarls of the death squads, who vow death to those offering a middle way out of El Salvador's problems...