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Every day at dusk, a scruffy knot of rebels gather before the gutted cathedral in the Salvadoran town of Jucuarán. All carry automatic weapons, but little else about them bespeaks military discipline. They fidget and giggle like schoolboys, snapping to attention only at the sight of their bearded commander. "For the people of this town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders...
...member of the Salvadoran government. For the past five years, you have been having a difficult time getting the U.S. Congress to approve increasing amounts of military aid for your country. The Congressmen are worried about human rights excesses and the actions of rightist death squads in particular. You begin to think that maybe you should crack down on the death squads in order for aid to continue, particularly when the U.S. ambassador. Thomas R. Pickering, publicly criticizes the recent increase in death squad killings. After all, President Reagan has been your most effective advocate for dealing with Congress...
...this Administration's policy of confrontation was an ideal opening for Washington to come to a settlement with the Sandanistas. After all, the Nicaraguans were the ones backing down, an all important consideration given Reagan's John Wayne style of diplomacy. And the increasing criticism from this country of Salvadoran human rights excesses appeared of late to be producing a few positive results: for example, the Ministry of Defense transfered and demoted several officers accused of rights violations, including the intelligence heads of the Treasury Police--noted rights abusers--and the National Police. The visa denial and the bill veto...
...WELL-MEANING majority of the Crimson fails to distinguish between a lacking reformist "progress" of the Salvadoran rightists and the despairing concessions of the struggling Sandinistas...
...Sandinistas have announced that 1,000 Cuban advisers have left Nicaragua and that others will leave if El Salvador and Honduras expel their U.S. advisers. The government has also let it be known that leftist Salvadoran rebels are no longer welcome on Nicaraguan soil, forcing them to find another haven. In addition, the Sandinistas have hinted that elections will be held in 1985, and have made overtures to leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the country's embattled business community to sit down and discuss their differences...