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...report on Mayan ruins." He was wrong. "I had been in the region a few weeks," he recalls, "when death squads in El Salvador wiped out the entire leadership of the only center-left group trying to work within that country's system. A few days later, Salvadoran national guardsmen murdered three American nuns and a lay missionary. The past 15 months in Central America have all too often been as dramatic, painful and fast-moving as those first weeks...
...Willwerth, who served 14 months as a correspondent in Viet Nam, covering the Salvadoran insurgency has revived old and unwanted memories. "The countryside is strikingly similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third...
...last week's elections," he reports, "and meeting with defense officials, I found an embattled, suspense-charged atmosphere that reminded me of western films, in which the gunslingers are getting ready for high noon." On a different front, Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary has also been covering the Salvadoran conflict, but long-distance at the State Department. She has been reporting what she calls "the war of the words-sorting out fact from fiction, explaining the Reagan Administration's controversial policy, and recognizing that on this subject, no sources are wholly credible...
...like about helping Duarte but we can't just let the Russians do what they want in another country. This outside influence is the root of the problem and has got to top "Leaving aside the argument that economic injustice and not Soviet expansionism constitutes the center of the Salvadoran mess, this point loses whatever validity it had in light of Washington's double standard...
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that U.S. initiatives in Central America are doomed to fail--and fail disastrously. In El Salvador, the extreme right appears likely to win this month's election. The dominant figure in Salvadoran politics would then be Republican Nationalist Alliance leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, who former ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." D'Aubuisson has vowed to intensify the fight against leftist guerillas, making the prospect for a peaceful settlement virtually...