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Mauricio Silva, spokesman for the Frente Democratico Revolucionario (FDR), the umbrella organization of the Salvadoran left, charged the United States with prolonging the war in El Salvador...
...withdrew its support from the El Salvadoran government, the result would be "polarization" of the many factions and the "killing of 200,000 people." Robert Pastor, National Security Council adviser for Latin America, said...
Similarly, the Administration-with Haig in the lead-made the mistake of overblowing its claim that the ugly little war in El Salvador is a showdown between Soviet-Cuban expansionism and American resolve. There is little doubt that the Cubans and their Sandinista friends in Nicaragua have supplied the Salvadoran leftist guerrillas with arms. But by casting the Central American conflict in apocalyptic East-West terms, the U.S. has already prompted criticism from Western Europe, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and even China...
...agents in Miami, acting on the request of the Salvadoran government, ar rested Hans Christ, 30, a Salvadoran businessman, for possible extradition in connection with the murders. His arrest followed the seizure in El Salvador a week earlier of Ricardo Sol Meza, 35, a wealthy industrialist and, significantly enough, part owner of the San Salvador Sheraton. The arrests were based in part on the testimony of a hotel waitress who had witnessed the murders...
...killings of four other Americans in El Salvador- three nuns and a lay worker who were found shot to death near the international airport last December-are still under investigation by the Salvadoran government, with precious little to show for it. The FBI and other independent investigators have amassed a quantity of evidence, including 16 sets of fingerprints taken from the nuns' vehicle and ballistics tests on the bullets that killed the women. Many of these clues point to the possible implication of members of the Salvadoran security forces, who were on highway patrol near the airport that night...