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Military Victory to Salvadoran Leftists! Film Revolution of Death and eyewitness account slide show by Tom Januta last Peace Corps voluneer to leave El Sulvador 7:30 p.m. March 17 in Emerson...
...fighting around the Guazapa volcano was observed firsthand by TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, the only journalist permitted to accompany the Salvadoran troops for three days during the fiercest combat. Mattison's account begins as he boards a helicopter gunship...
That claim is dubious in the splintered world of Salvadoran politics. The extreme left is not testing its strength in the election, which it is boycotting and hopes to discredit. The country also has a strong right, and Duarte and the centrists may have trouble holding power in the election. But Reagan Administration officials are sure that the centrists would lose outright in negotiations. The prime example of what the White House fears would happen is almost next door to El Salvador...
...confirmed that he had voluntarily joined rebel troops in El Salvador after fighting to overthrow the Somoza regime in his native Nicaragua. He denied, however, ever having been to Cuba or Ethiopia and said that he had been coerced into that lie by U.S. officials after his capture by Salvadoran National Guardsmen last year. Describing brutal torture in a Salvadoran government jail, he said that U.S. Embassy representatives offered him a simple choice: "They gave me an option. They said I could come here or face certain death. All my previous statements about training in Ethiopia and Cuba were false...
...committed revolutionary in front of the TV cameras under a death threat cannot possibly be classified under "Thoughtful Argumentation" in the State Department hand-book. Even if the young man had recited his lines on cue, would that have proved he was telling the truth or that the Salvadoran civil war can be attributed to Communist infiltration via Nicaragua...