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...countercharges. But one campaigner found some surprising ammunition. Hugo Barrera, the vice-presidential nominee of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), made public the text of a letter from Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina to President Reagan demanding the removal of the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Thomas Pickering. Helms accused Pickering of manipulating the elections, specifically by urging the country's provisional President, Alvaro Magaña, to veto an ARENA-sponsored proposal for loosening voting procedures. Wrote Helms: "Mr. Pickering has used the cloak of diplomacy to strangle freedom in the night...
...Napoleón Duarte and ARENA'S Roberto d'Aubuisson. But in a speech on the Senate floor, Helms expanded his attack, contending that the State Department "bent over backwards to facilitate a Duarte victory" and that a member of the U.S. embassy staff in San Salvador told ARENA officials the U.S. would not support D'Aubuisson if he won. State Department officials rejected those charges as well...
Nothing would be wrong, of course, with Israel offering its own aid to El Salvador or the contras, even at U.S. request. Washington and Jerusalem were full of rumors last week that the subject would come up when David Kimche, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry and a former deputy chief of the Mossad, traveled to Washington. After meeting with State Department officials, however, Kimche denied that Israel had any intention of selling arms to U.S. clients in the isthmus. He said that discussions had been held on expanding technological aid to the region, like Israel's ongoing...
...Salvador has made no secret of its desire for military assistance from Israel. Last month the Salvadoran government conspicuously moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, becoming only the second nation in the world officially to recognize the holy city as Israel's capital (the other is Costa Rica). A few days later, El Salvador's interim President, Alvaro Magaña, said that he looked forward to closer cooperation with Israel...
Soon gangs of unemployed youths were throwing rocks at stores accused of price gouging. As the rock throwing gave way to looting, the Dominican Republic was plunged into the worst rioting the country has seen in 19 years. President Salvador Jorge Blanco quickly dispatched armored trucks and helicopters to back up police. Soldiers fired into the crowds. According to newsmen on the scene, several agitators suspected of looting were summarily executed. In a battle that lasted two days, 55 were killed, 400 wounded and 5,000 arrested. Property damage ran into millions of dollars...