Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meddling in it. He met for four hours in his Panama Hilton hotel suite with Ruben Zamora and three other representatives of rebel groups that are fighting the U.S.-backed government of El Salvador. Jackson urged the rebel leaders to begin cease-fire talks with the newly elected Salvadoran President, Jose Napoleon Duarte. But one of the rebel delegates, Jose Mario Lopez, told reporters: "We can't be the only ones to lay down arms to start negotiations." Jackson agreed that any cease-fire must be "mutual so that negotiations can go on in an orderly process free...
President Reagan had requested $21 million in additional support for the contras in a $1.1 billion emergency spending bill that also included $62 million in military aid for the Salvadoran government and $100 million to create summer jobs for teenagers. The Democratic majority in the House had for months refused to approve the spending package unless the disputed funds were dropped. With the White House's reluctant approval, the Republican-controlled Senate finally gave in, voting 88 to 1 to save the spending bill by shelving aid to the contras...
...April, Richardson was quoted as saying he "might well have joined the rebellion against" the right-wing Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet backing. Shamie called Richardson "naive" and said in a statement released by his office, "I would not have joined the Marxist rebels in Salvador, even if they had never been supplied by Cuba and Russia. They have killed innocent people, and terrorized thousands of ordinary El Salvadoreans for trying to vote...
...successful Morazán operation pleased no one as much as the U.S. military advisers, who have long been urging the Salvadoran army to shed its "9t05" habits and aggressively pursue the guerrillas in their strongholds. The army also helped relocate hundreds of peasants who have been alienated by a guerrilla recruitment drive. In addition, the Salvadoran army says that since January some 400 demoralized rebels have turned themselves in to the army. Monterrosa's brigade now plans to establish a permanent presence, including a forward command post, in the reoccupied areas...
...gonna stay that way." The Administration still expects the guerrillas to launch a new offensive in the fall, timed to embarrass Reagan just before the U.S. elections. "It is absolutely essential," says Colonel Joseph Stringham, the recently departed head of the U.S. military group in El Salvador, "that the Salvadoran armed forces keep their operation going so that the guerrillas can't stop and resupply or take a break...