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...Administration deserved some credit for helping Duarte. Washington has bolstered the Salvadoran military with training and military aid. And more. A U.S. plane on a surveillance mission over rebel territory crashed outside San Salvador last week, killing four American employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, the U.S. strongly supported the democratic election process by which Duarte took office. The Administration also aided the Salvadoran armed forces in developing an increasingly aggressive stance toward the guerrillas on the battlefield. That, in the U.S. view, went a long way toward creating incentives for the La Palma meeting. Said...
Shortly after his bold and historic visit to La Palma, José Napoleón Duarte talked for nearly an hour with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Harry Kelly, Correspondent Ricardo Chavira and Reporter J. T. Johnson at the presidential palace in San Salvador. He was at times eloquent, and at times surprising, as he offered his own views about what had happened, and why. Excerpts...
...South America, to the U.S. When I obtained military aid from the Senate, that gave me the strength to say that there is confidence in what I was trying to do. When I went to West Germany and obtained economic aid, and the Minister of Commerce came to El Salvador, it created a direct feeling in the country that this was the means to solve problems. That allowed me to say that the world believed in what I was trying to do. Then I started to work inside the country, going from town to town. I started to talk...
...emotional and tense. And all the time we were in the town. You have to remember that I was taking complete responsibility for whatever happens there. One single mistake could have destroyed everything. I was even worried when [Ungo and Zamora] took the Red Cross car back to San Salvador. I stayed in radio contact the whole time, until they took the plane...
Should the U.S. be doing more for El Salvador...