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Washington's position reflects the anxiety of its allies in the region. The leaders of El Salvador and Honduras, for example, fear that their concerns will be neglected if they are excluded from the negotiations. "We've been burned before," said a Honduran official, alluding to the Reagan-Wright plan, which was unveiled without consulting the allies. Last week State Department officials continued to insist publicly that any U.S. talks with Nicaragua must include the other Central American countries. But privately they said Shultz was pushing Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to back bilateral talks...
When a Jeep Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...
These are the realities of today's El Salvador, trapped like Nicaragua in a war against itself that has left people so terrorized and divided that it may be impossible ever to heal the rift. Ask anyone what the country needs most, and the answer comes quick as a rifle's report: peace. But peace has many last names. President Jose Napoleon Duarte and his U.S. supporters declare that they want peace with democracy. The armed forces vow to accept only peace with national security. And the Marxist-led F.M.L.N. says its goal is peace with freedom from U.S. interference...
...power brokers pursue their separate visions of peace, ordinary men and women look on helplessly. Meanwhile, the Jeeps and trucks with blackened glass cruise the streets, most carrying only motorists seeking respite from the glaring sun. But the people of El Salvador have learned to fear anything they cannot...
...crucial deadline is met as Nicaragua agrees to talk to the contras about a cease- fire. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra tells why in a Time interview. Meanwhile, in the region' s key trouble spots, Nicaragua and El Salvador, life remains hard. -- Gorbachev cautiously denounces Stalin' s crimes. -- Habib Bourguiba, ruler of Tunisia for three decades, is ousted...