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...wearing Salvadoran army uniforms mowed people down with automatic weapons June 19, 1985, in the "Pink Zone," a strip of trendy restaurants and clubs in San Salvador. Among the dead were four Marine guards from the U.S. Embassy, dressed in civilian clothes...
...Ricardo Wheelock of military movements involving the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, which is the U.S. military headquarters for Latin America. Miranda charged that last August, as relations between the Reagan Administration and Noriega soured, the Panamanian told Wheelock that he wanted to send arms through Nicaragua to the Salvadoran rebels. Miranda claimed that top Sandinistas approved the scheme, but he does not know if the shipment took place...
...case, D'Aubuisson is unlikely to be convicted -- even if the legislature strips him of his immunity. Under Salvadoran law, the same witness cannot testify against two people charged with the same crime. Garay's evidence can therefore be used only against Saravia. If D'Aubuisson goes to trial, he will face judges on the country's appeals court, which includes many ardent ARENA supporters...
...remark was a challenge to Duarte, who has insisted that the returning exiles, who are allies of the Marxist F.M.L.N. guerrillas, must "define themselves" if they want to take part in Salvadoran politics again. If they refuse to accept the government's amnesty offers and to thereby renounce the F.M.L.N. and violence, they can be charged with complicity in future guerrilla activities. Said another returning exile, Guillermo Manuel Ungo of the National Revolutionary Movement: "I don't think most people realize the change that the F.M.L.N. has undergone. It has learned that this war is going to be won through...
...already set free 474 political prisoners as part of the mandated amnesty, and may release more soon. Unfortunately, the amnesty erases, perhaps forever, the possibility of prosecuting those who may be responsible for some of El Salvador's most shameful moments. Apart from the perpetrators of thousands of unsolved Salvadoran slayings, those who may be freed include the three men suspected of killing four U.S. Marines in San Salvador in 1985 and the suspected murderers of four American churchwomen in 1980. Seeking peace for all of Central America, the region's leaders will inevitably leave many of their people feeling...