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...Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas as a way to end the Central American country's three-year civil war. Shultz's reply: "The guerrillas are busy upsetting people in El Salvador, creating hell, shooting their way around. They are responsible for the levels of violence and difficulty...
Much of the blame for the guerrillas' success is placed on Salvadoran Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia. Ignoring U.S. military advice, Garcia has wasted the energies of the 22,000-man Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole...
...sponsor a resolution that would cut off all U.S. military aid to El Salvador on the grounds that the Reagan Administration was mistaken in claiming that there had been significant human rights progress in the country. Studds, who speaks from personal conviction, finds echoes of Viet Nam in the Salvadoran situation. Says he: "The U.S. is backing itself into a corner. There's overwhelming public opposition to the Administration's policy...
...really. The latest bout of congressional querulousness was partly inspired by disappointing news from the Salvadoran battlefront. In the town of Suchitoto (pop. about 11,000), 27 miles from the capital of San Salvador, hundreds of guerrilla members of the Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) last week were continuing a prolonged attack against a garrison of 150 to 200 national guardsmen and police. All access roads to the town were cut off. Within the besieged area, food, medicines and potable water were growing scarce, and civilian refugees could escape from the fighting only by rowboat across a nearby reservoir...
...guerrillas were intent on repeating a psychological triumph of three weeks ago, when they occupied the virtually undefended provincial center of Berlin for three days, then retreated before the belated arrival of Salvadoran army reinforcements. U.S. officials in El Salvador discounted the showy guerrilla actions as armed propaganda exercises, producing results that were militarily worthless even though psychologically valuable. Nonetheless, as a senior American official admitted, "the guerrillas are getting better at what they're doing. They have better coordination, better timing between their operations...