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Central America produced some relatively good news. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra...
Estella, using the three-syllable psuedonym to protect herself and her family in Central America, has been living in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church for two weeks to escape federal agents who want to deport her to El Salvador...
...think about going back to El Salvador?" says the translator in Spanish...
...short, sturdy young woman says she left her homeland nine months ago after finding out she was on the hit list-of right-wing death squads in her home country. She is a labor union organizer, a vocation the Duarte government in El Salvador views with suspicion...
...Salvador, the election of President José Napolèon Duarte was something of a turning point-and incidentally, would not have occurred had the Administration followed the counsel of those Congressmen who, since 1981, have sought to condition continued military aid to the Salvadoran government on the commencement of indiscriminate negotiations with the guerrillas, which would have led to "power sharing...