Word: salvadorans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mining of Nicaraguan ports [NATION, April 23] is just another example of the Reagan Administration's selective morality. We must think twice before we support the Nicaraguan contras and condemn the Salvadoran rebels. Both groups are fighting for representation in the governments of their respective countries. The difference is that one wears the mask of Communism, and the other wears the mask of democracy...
...Though Pickering is hardly the puppetmaster depicted by Helms, he has not refrained from voicing his government's views. When Duarte and D'Aubuisson were angling for the support of Francisco José ("Chachi") Guerrero, leader of the conservative National Conciliation Party, Pickering held talks with the Salvadoran politician and explained U.S. congressional attitudes toward D'Aubuisson, but stopped short of advising political neutrality for Guerrero in the election runoff. Nonetheless, neutrality is the position that Guerrero eventually took...
...concern about the election results, the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives decided last week to postpone consideration of $62 million in proposed emergency military assistance to El Salvador until after the balloting. Said Democratic Representative Clarence Long of Maryland: "We want to send a notice to the [Salvadoran] military. They had better honor that election...
With the Administration's requests for continued aid to the Salvadoran army and Nicaragua's contras bottled up in Congress, an intriguing question arises: Could the U.S. funnel arms to Central America through Israel? U.S. officials refused to address the question directly last week, but they conceded that it had the merit Of being logical. Israel has looked on Central America with a kind eye ever since Nicaragua allowed Jewish freedom fighters to ship arms into Israel under the Nicaraguan flag in the late 1940s. In return, Jerusalem has long supplied weapons to several Central American countries, including...
...Salvador has made no secret of its desire for military assistance from Israel. Last month the Salvadoran government conspicuously moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, becoming only the second nation in the world officially to recognize the holy city as Israel's capital (the other is Costa Rica). A few days later, El Salvador's interim President, Alvaro Magaña, said that he looked forward to closer cooperation with Israel...