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...side, a national coalition comprising mostly religious groups has drafted a "Pledge of Resistance." Some 55,000 Americans have signed, vowing to engage in acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent protest if the U.S. "invades, bombs, sends combat troops, or otherwise significantly escalates its intervention in Nicaragua or El Salvador." The pledgers are currently on "active alert," poised to hold peace vigils and to begin phoning Congressmen as the vote on contra aid approaches...
...bare coffin resting on sawhorses in the street. A few miles up the dirt road, graves were being dug for the two brothers and 17 other villagers killed last week when 100 to 200 leftist insurgents raided the tiny hamlet of Santa Cruz Loma, 33 miles southeast of San Salvador, the capital. Among the dead were six members of the local civil defense team, as well as a woman and three small children. Three of the victims had their throats slit...
...assault on the village was one of a series of raids launched by the guerrillas against lightly defended targets. It came at a time when attacks by large units are relatively rare in El Salvador's civil war. Before legislative elections last month small groups of insurgents hit more than 20 small towns, burning government buildings and public records. In response, the Salvadoran government, with the help of U.S. military advisers, has been rejuvenating the country's civil defense network. One of the rebels' publicly declared goals is to undermine that effort; the object of the assault on Santa Cruz...
...regular army units. Development projects were then established to show that the government cared for the residents' welfare. But all too often, the insurgents returned as soon as the army left. "There were cases where the guerrillas were using new schoolhouses for indoctrination classes," a U.S. official in San Salvador explained. "It was clear that there were not enough military forces to position them in each town...
Reaganites retort, correctly, that while Viet Nam is halfway around the world and of debatable strategic importance to Washington, Central America is virtually next door, an area where U.S. interests are obvious. Moreover, the amounts Washington is spending to help the government of El Salvador defeat leftist guerrillas and to assist the contra rebels fighting the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua are pittances compared with the sums lavished on South Viet Nam even before the direct U.S. military intervention there. Still, the Administration every now and then feels obliged to deny that it has any plan or desire to send...