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These Harvard personnel have visited Central America in the past year as members of a group called the Faculty for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America. The non-profit, California-based organization consists of faculty members in universities across the country who are concerned with human rights and U.S. policy in the region. Among its directors are Thomas Professor of divinity Harvey G. Cox Jr. and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack...
...human rights organization has sent four fact-finding trips to Central America in the past two years. The trips include five-day stays in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras and a series of interviews with both pro and anti-government groups...
After returning from a two-year stint in Mexico in 1981. McGinn discovered that attitudes in the U.S. towards the Sandinistas had changed drastically. Civil war had flared up again in El Salvador, and the U.S. was coming down hard on the Sandinistas for lending support to the Salvadoran rebels...
Like McGinn, Assistant Dean of the Law School Frederick E. Snyder brought long academic involvement with Latin America to his trip to El Salvador last January. A lecturer on Latin American law, the 40-year-old Snyder teaches a course called "Law, Politics and Revolution in Latin America" and has published articles on the same subject...
With the stakes so high, the contest has developed into an uncommonly vicious, gloves-off slugfest. The Hunt organization early this summer ran a television advertisement linking Helms to the right-wing death squads in El Salvador. The commercial opened with the sound of gunfire and photos of massacred Salvadoran citizens. A picture of Salvadoran Roberto d'Aubuisson appeared, and a narrator identified him as "the man accused of directing those death squads." A picture of Helms then appeared, and the narrator said, "This is the man whose aides helped D'Aubuisson set up his political party...