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Bush later gave the government an extraordinary private message from President Reagan. The letter demanded a reduction in arrests by secret police and named the Salvadoran officials believed to be organizers of the death squads, whom the U.S. wants sent out of the country-or else. Washington evidently stopped just short of threatening a cutoff of its $65 million in military aid, which would probably doom the Salvadoran government. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "We're saying, 'Clean up your act or we won't be able to save you-and we might not even...
...report on the case to the State Department. According to those who have seen the classified document, Tyler found that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador pressed the murder investigations properly. It now seems likely that the five Guardsmen charged with murdering the churchwomen will finally be tried. The Salvadoran government has a large incentive to do justice in the case: if no trial is held, Congress has ordered that U.S. military aid shrink 30%, or $20 million this fiscal year...
...contingent on the continued progress of El Salvador's ambitious agrarian-reform program, which both the Carter and Reagan Administrations have promoted as a bulwark against Communism. Congress will have to decide whether the constitutional provision passed last week gutted land reform, as some Salvadoran moderates and U.S. labor leaders suspect, or merely modified...
...have taken place in three stages, each providing for purchase, not expropriation, of farm land. The first phase, under which the country's largest farms were turned into peasant-run cooperatives, is complete. Phase 2 had called for giving medium-size plantations to peasant farmers. Under the new Salvadoran law, however, Phase 2 was substantially diluted: the current owners may keep almost 60% of the land that was to be redistributed, and a loophole could let them sell the remainder to family-held corporations...
While the Administration has generally supported the Contadora goals, it has envisioned them mainly as fetters on the Sandinistas, who have shipped arms to Salvadoran rebels, imported hundreds of Cuban military advisers and drifted toward one-party Marxist rule. At least for the moment, however, the Sandinistas have all but ended the arms traffic, begun to send the Cubans home, eased press censorship and promised to hold elections in 1985. In January, a State Department official said, the U.S. will meet with the Sandinistas to encourage them to come up with an election framework acceptable to the Reagan Administration...