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...Flyer Lieut. Robert Goodman, critics accused Jackson of violating the Logan Act of 1799, which makes it a crime for any private citizen to try to influence a foreign government on issues involving a controversy with the U.S. Now, on his whirlwind six-day tour of Panama City, San Salvador, Havana and Managua, the self-assured Jackson had gratuitously injected himself into the flammable arena of Central American politics...
...Sunday, Jackson went from criticizing U.S. policy to meddling in it. He met for four hours in his Panama Hilton hotel suite with Ruben Zamora and three other representatives of rebel groups that are fighting the U.S.-backed government of El Salvador. Jackson urged the rebel leaders to begin cease-fire talks with the newly elected Salvadoran President, Jose Napoleon Duarte. But one of the rebel delegates, Jose Mario Lopez, told reporters: "We can't be the only ones to lay down arms to start negotiations." Jackson agreed that any cease-fire must be "mutual so that negotiations...
Claiming he was on "a moral offensive," Jackson and his entourage flew on Monday into San Salvador, where Duarte welcomed the American graciously at his presidential palace. Jackson conveyed the rebel leaders' stated conditions for talks to Duarte, who found nothing substantively new in them. Insisted Duarte: "I will never negotiate with arms across the table." Though he conceded Jackson's trip may have unproved the climate for possible future meetings, the impasse remained. The rebel leaders fear that their fighters will be seized by government troops if they lay down their arms; Duarte will not talk...
...April, Richardson was quoted as saying he "might well have joined the rebellion against" the right-wing Salvadoran government before the rebels received Cuban and Soviet backing. Shamie called Richardson "naive" and said in a statement released by his office, "I would not have joined the Marxist rebels in Salvador, even if they had never been supplied by Cuba and Russia. They have killed innocent people, and terrorized thousands of ordinary El Salvadoreans for trying to vote...
...head off further violence, Dominican President Salvador Jorge Blanco subsequently suspended negotiations with the IMF. The need for credit, however, remains as great as ever. Last week Hugo Guiliani Cury, the Secretary of State for Finance, told TIME that the talks would be resumed. "We never said we would not make the adjustments that the IMF asked for," he explained. "The bone of contention was velocity. If we had gone ahead with more immediate austerity measures, it could have meant the end of our 20-year-old attempt at democracy...