Word: salvadore
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...SALVADOR...
...Europe since his victory in the May 6 elections, Duarte was greeted warmly in West Germany last week, met with cordiality in Paris, and invited to visit Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. That marked a decided change in attitude by the West Europeans, who have long shunned El Salvador as a chronic human rights violator. So bad were relations that in 1979 West Germany suspended aid to El Salvador, and in 1980 the European Community cut off its milk donations to the country...
...Bonn, Duarte lunched with a fellow Christian Democrat, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a $17.8 million foreign-aid program was signed. In Paris, Duarte met with French President François Mitterrand, whose government recognizes El Salvador's Marxist-led guerrillas as a "representative political force." Afterward, Duarte announced that the French embassy in El Salvador will reopen after being closed for five years. Said Duarte: "French policy has not changed. The situation in El Salvador has changed, especially after my election...
...however, is the potential impact of the studies on military waste, for it is here that the Administration blind spot is most disconcerting. Granted Pentagon waste did not start in with the Reaganites, but clearly a fresh perspective is needed when President Reagan calls current U.S. aid to El Salvador--an amount which, according to published estimates allots more than $20,000 per Salvadoran guerilla--"niggardly," and likens the funding to "letting El Salvador slowly bleed to death." Clearly it is needed when, in the age of $50 screwdrivers and massive cost overruns. Weinberger says of inefficiency and corruption...
...Stinger anti-aircraft weapons to Saudi Arabia. She was against the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. She sharply opposes the CIA-guided operations of contra forces against the government of Nicaragua. She voted against the Administration's request for $62 million in emergency military aid to El Salvador and supported strong requirements that any military aid to that government be tied to improvements in human rights conditions. She urges greater efforts by the Administration to resume arms-control talks with the Soviet Union...