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...promising future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what you are talking about...
...Nestle boycott offers an inspiring example to be followed where economic pressures can be influential. At the same time, however, it is important to note that this technique probably cannot change situations where violence is used for political purposes, as in EI Salvador, Nicaragua or Nambia. But within the United States, a wide range of nonviolent sanctions do exist, and the Nestle boycott proves that such methods can be put to good...
Congress is expected to approve little if any of the $8 billion in economic aid to Central America called for by the Kissinger commission and endorsed by Reagan. El Salvador is not likely to get more money unless progress is made in curbing the right-wing death squads there. Congress is expected to fight Reagan's attempts to avoid the practice of tying Salvadoran aid to regular certifications of improvement in that country's human rights record...
Winning scattered firefights is the first and least of the goals of Operation Well-Being, a protracted campaign that involves two other U.S.-trained Salvadoran battalions, the Atonal and the Bayoso, along with the Atlacatl unit. Their sweep through Usulután was a long-awaited extension of El Salvador's ambitious National Plan, a combined civilian-military offensive that aims to drive the guerrillas out permanently. Conceived with the help of U.S. military advisers, the National Plan was initially tested, with mixed results, last summer in the neighboring department of San Vicente. The plan's success...
Reported by David DeVoss/San Salvador and Johanna McGeary/Washington