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Shultz, who has shown flashes of temper in recent months, listened with increasing impatience as Illinois Democrat Sidney Yates joined the assault. He read aloud part of a New York Times story reporting that a former high military official in El Salvador had named Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing candidate for President in the March 25 election, as a leading figure in the death squads that have been murdering civilians. "How many killers have been brought to trial?" Yates asked. Shultz could not cite one, but argued that the murders had decreased in number. If death-squad activity...
...That isn't what I said," replied Yates. "There have been no efforts to change the situation there. The attitude of this Administration is that El Salvador will receive as much money as is necessary from now until eternity...
...squads even more. In the long run, this argument goes, such activity creates more sympathy for the rebels, lifting their chances to win the military struggle. In the event they do win, they would almost certainly turn out to be even more authoritarian than the present government, and El Salvador would join Cuba and Nicaragua as a Soviet client state. Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé publicly accused some Congressmen of wanting to "wash their hands of Central America like Pontius Pilate" and charged that "un der the cloak of being concerned about human rights" they would "impose...
...full House Appropriations Committee seemed unlikely to do so. Many of the legislators want to wait until they see who wins the election before turning more money over to El Salvador. Their main worry is that a victorious D'Aubuisson might end up the beneficiary...
...committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote against aid to low-income Americans. The committee rejected Stevens' amendment, 15 to 14. The Appropriations Committee also delayed voting on a similar effort to attach funds for El Salvador to a bill providing emergency food aid for drought-stricken African nations. Declared Republican Senator Pete Domenici: "If the entire Administration policy for Central America is handled as poorly as this was handled, it is doomed...