Word: salvadore
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...superpower confrontation into still sharper focus. The invasion of Grenada, Reagan claimed, prevented Marxists from turning that island into a Soviet-Cuban colony. Elsewhere in the region, however, no such quick or decisive victory for Administration policy seemed in sight. U.S. aid to the conservative government of El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurrection, and to the contra rebels battling the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua, did little more than sustain grim guerrilla wars. Just as the U.S. did after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, the Soviet...
...always, John Paul's charismatic personality attracted millions of the faithful, and his words and actions rarely failed to bring political reactions. He roared "Silencio!" to unruly Sandinistas who disrupted a Mass he was celebrating in Nicaragua; he made a surprise visit to the grave of El Salvador's martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero; and he bluntly told the government of dirt-poor Haiti, "Something must change here." In Poland he met with General Wojciech Jaruzelski and called for the unshackling of Solidarity, the banned labor union. He also met privately with his native country's most celebrated...
Another 10% of the aid is contingent on the continued progress of El Salvador's ambitious agrarian-reform program, which both the Carter and Reagan Administrations have promoted as a bulwark against Communism. Congress will have to decide whether the constitutional provision passed last week gutted land reform, as some Salvadoran moderates and U.S. labor leaders suspect, or merely modified...
...violent politics is primed for an unusually precarious period. The contras talk about a January offensive, and the Sandinistas say that in February they will set an election date. Big Pine II, due to end by March, will be almost immediately replaced by Big Pine III. El Salvador will doubtless hold its presidential elections on schedule, March 25, but Salvadoran citizens do not seem aroused or optimistic about the voting. As far as U.S. policy is concerned, Central America is no place to invest high hopes. Right now, averting a crisis seems good enough...
...Kurt Andersen. Reported by Timothy Loughran/San Salvador and Barrett Seaman/Washington