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...Thursday, two Republicans, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa, introduced a bill to cut off all military aid and withdraw U.S. advisers unless the Salvadoran government launched "good faith" negotiations with the guerrillas. The Reagan Administration insists the rebels must lay down their arms before any such talks can begin, a stipulation the rebels have refused to accept. There is no chance that the legislation proposed by Hatfield and Leach will pass. Nonetheless, House Speaker Tip O'Neill predicted that any request for an additional $60 million in military aid to El Salvador would...
...Salvador two weeks ago. In secret meetings he urged the leaders to announce the new election plan last Sunday, the very day of the Pope's visit. Until then, Stone argued, Americans should keep the plan secret to ensure that it would appear to be a purely Salvadoran initiative...
...Miami. During the stopover in Belize, a vacationing television reporter from Tampa, Mark Feldstein, boarded the plane. He settled into a seat in front of the Stone party and leaned back for a nap. Feldstein soon realized that the men behind him were drafting statements for Reagan and the Salvadoran President about the election announcement. At one point, one of Stone's companions noted, "That's worded for domestic political consumption." Feldstein grabbed an air-sickness bag and began to scribble down what he was hearing. As the plane drew near Miami, he approached Stone and told...
...Reagan Administration, meanwhile, is deeply dissatisfied with the performance of the Salvadoran military machine. Its commanders insist on broad and expensive battalion-size sweeps of the countryside, rather than the small-unit, anti-insurgent tactics urged by the U.S. trainers. The high command is rife with political infighting. Complains an official close to Reagan: "We have to deal with barracks politics as well as the attitude of 9-to-5 fighting...
...Administration itself sometimes appears to be divided on Salvadoran policy, with hard-liners like Kirkpatrick and Clark pitted against more moderate policymakers at State. When Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, reportedly suggested that perhaps the time had come at least to explore the idea of holding talks with the guerrillas, the notion was quickly squelched...