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Once again, Washington's attempts to draw the line against insurgency in tiny El Salvador were being tugged into the spotlight. The F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. leaders said that they had not yet received a formal response from the Salvadoran government, whose efforts to put down the guerrillas have been backed by about $122.4 million in U.S. military aid in the past three years. But in the capital of San Salvador, there was an immediate reaction. Said Right-Wing Leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, who is president of the Constituent Assembly: "We will permit no dialogue or negotiation with...
According to another F.M.L.N. spokesman in Mexico City, an additional reason for the peace offer is a rebel fear that the Salvadoran insurgency might broaden into a regional war. But in the view of many U.S. analysts, the rebels are beginning to sound more conciliatory because they know that the Salvadoran government, under U.S. pressure, is inching toward a proposal of its own for political reconciliation. The initial step would be for Provisional President Alvaro Magaña to name a peace commission that would be instructed to look for a way to include leftists in the presidential and municipal...
...appear to realize that talks may be inevitable. To enhance their position in any future negotiations, three weeks ago the guerrillas launched a military offensive in El Salvador's northern and eastern regions. They overran five small towns and hamlets, claimed to have killed 189 members of the Salvadoran armed forces and captured, then released, some 90 "prisoners...
Perhaps the most critical effort of all, from the U.S. point of view, is Washington's determination to encourage the building of a new Salvadoran national consensus. The Administration's aim is to give the provisional authorities a chance to seize "the initiative from the F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. by offering opportunities for elements of the extreme left to return to the political mainstream." The U.S. hopes that the Salvadoran government will find ways to involve all major nonguerrilla groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, business, labor and rural peasants in that effort...
...Reagan Administration's low-key campaign for change has produced disappointingly few results. U.S. proposals for reorganization of the armed forces have come to naught: the idea has been resisted by the tightly knit brotherhood of the Salvadoran armed forces, which exists almost as a society apart from the rest of the country's citizens. Human rights atrocities continue. According to Ambassador Hinton, at least 68 people were killed in the first two weeks of October. U.S. efforts have been further set back by the disappearance of 21 leftists and labor leaders, several of whom attended the meeting...