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...Zona Rosa cafe last June, American officials have been talking about retribution. A reward of $100,000 was even offered by the State Department for the perpetrators. When pressed last week about why nothing more had been done, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger made what seemed a surprising revelation. "The Salvadoran government with our assistance," he claimed, "has taken care of--in one way or another--a number of people who participated in that killing." About two weeks after the café attack, Pentagon sources said, the Salvadoran army staged an offensive against the Central American Revolutionary Workers' Party, the group that...
...directly to the regime in Nicaragua, which was celebrating the sixth anniversary of its Sandinista revolution, saying that it would be held responsible for future attacks against Americans in the region. The State Department did not say why the first offer of a reward came in response to the Salvadoran shooting rather than to the hijacking of the TWA passenger jet to Beirut last month, after which a reward was discussed but never offered. ESPIONAGE A Family of Smugglers...
...military base in Nicaragua. According to Administration officials, guerrillas are trained at the base, on Nicaragua's Cosigüina Peninsula for attacks on Americans. One suspect in the June attack was identified and traced to the Cosigüina camp through documents that had been captured by the Salvadoran army...
...attract a large and diverse audience, Barriga says this year’s selection committee included members ranging “from MIT professors to a 68-year-old Salvadoran woman learning to write...
Blacklisting violates Salvadoran and international law. It also violates the codes of conduct for apparel production of universities like Harvard. Those codes require that factories not discriminate in employment and that management respect the right to unionize and bargain collectively. Collegiate code compliance is typically monitored by the WRC or the Fair Labor Association (FLA), the latter of which Harvard is a member. When a factory is in violation of the code and the monitor investigates, schools and brands can sometimes pressure the factory to improve—a strategy that has been successful in the past. In this case...