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...point National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane came up to Reagan to tell him that the eldest daughter of El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte had been kidnaped by gunmen. "I wouldn't have bothered you, Mr. President," said McFarlane, "but Dan Rather is here, and he knows about it. He might ask you." A grateful President held his warm smile, armored against any ensnaring questions...
...turmoil in El Salvador took an especially ugly turn last week when Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran, the 35-year-old daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, was kidnaped by several armed assailants in downtown San Salvador, the capital. Duarte Duran, a divorced mother of three and the oldest of the President's six children, was seized outside the New San Salvador University, where she has been studying public relations. Ana Cecilia Villeda, a 23-year- old student and Duarte Duran's former secretary, was also abducted. One of Duarte Duran's two bodyguards was killed by gunfire; the other...
...from President Reagan and other world leaders. But the people he most wanted to hear from, the kidnapers, remained silent. Suspicion centered on the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the leftist rebel organization that in recent months has threatened to take its struggle against the Duarte government into El Salvador's cities. That campaign got under way last June when an F.M.L.N. terrorist squad gunned down 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, in a San Salvador outdoor cafe...
...however, at least one of the arrests hinged as much on luck as on efficient police work. According to Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, Salvadoran public security vice minister, a guerrilla suspect identified as "Jose" had been picked up in California and, together with other illegal immigrants, was deported to El Salvador, where security police arrested him. The two other suspects, Lopez Nuila said, had been arrested earlier in an upholstery shop in downtown San Salvador. Only one of those captured is accused of taking part in the massacre; the other two detainees are charged with helping to plan the operation...
...blithely reported last October that the Pentagon was poisoning the Amazon River. The Soviets still regularly use forgeries to discredit the U.S. Last July the Soviet press published a letter to Chile's President Augusto Pinochet, purportedly from a U.S. Army general, welcoming Chilean troops to fight in El Salvador...