Word: salvadore
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...Republican range. Indeed, Bentsen's political differences with Mondale may be too big to gloss over gracefully. His views on U.S. policy in Central America-he has supported CIA aid for the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua and does not rule out U.S. combat intervention in El Salvador-are not unlike the Reagan Administration...
...people come away saying, 'Hey, I never thought of it that way.' " Bumpers, an assertive member of the Energy Committee, is probably the most liberal Southerner in the Senate. He voted against the B-l bomber. He has supported human rights conditions on military aid to El Salvador. On a ticket with Mondale, he would be able to run effectively against the Reagan budget deficit: Bumpers was one of just three Senators who voted in favor of Reagan's 1981 spending cuts but against his huge tax cuts...
...women, most of them dressed in black, stood outside the gates of the presidential palace in San Salvador waving signs adorned with pictures of relatives. It was one more demonstration by those whose loved ones are listed as missing but are widely assumed to have been killed by the country's death squads. Last Wednesday, however, José Napoleon Duarte left his office and plunged into the mob of weeping women, leaving his bodyguards scrambling. As the women tugged at his sleeves, Duarte promised that the cases would be investigated. He then strolled back to his office, shouts...
...auspicious moment in the first week of El Salvador's new President. Constantly asked by reporters about promised reforms ("Give me a few weeks, please," he said in general exasperation), Duarte seemed intent on moving cautiously. However, he did order an eleven-member military commission to 'Open an inquiry into the 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Meanwhile, Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist rival in last month's elections, who was once accused by former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White of plotting Romero's murder, received a visa to visit...
...Salvador seemed caught up in its internal affairs last week, Honduras and Nicaragua appeared preoccupied with foreign relations. In a veiled rebuke to the U.S., General Walter LÓpez Reyes, the commander of Honduras' armed forces, attacked the autocratic policies of his predecessor, General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, who was ousted by the military in March. In a televised speech, LÓpez announced that the 37-member Armed Forces Superior Council was once again the final arbiter of all defense matters. Though Lopez did not criticize the U.S. directly, his talk served notice that Washington could...