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...through. Said he: "Congress has not yet developed capacities for coherent, responsible action needed to carry out the new foreign policy powers it has taken for itself." But his examples of this failure were curious, to say the least. Congress has significantly raised the level of aid to El Salvador over the past three years; last week the Senate passed a measure providing $62 million in emergency military funds for El Salvador with barely a change in the final White House request. The sole legislative action in the Lebanon episode was to pass a compromise war-powers resolution giving Reagan...
...countries in which the U.S. is currently deploying nuclear missiles (Great Britain, West Germany and Italy). Both Bartley and William Hebert, a former teachers' union official, were tripped up by the confusing but basic policy question about which side the U.S. supports in El Salvador (the government) and in Nicaragua (the insurgents...
They claim to control one-fifth of El Salvador's national territory. Their fighting strength continues to grow, from 8,000 combatants in 1982 to 10,000 today. In the past year they have killed some 1,800 members of the Salvadoran army and security forces, knocked out key bridges and caused more than $100 million worth of economic damage. On the basis of their destructive activity alone, the five guerrilla organizations that make up El Salvador's Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.) have shown that they are a potent national force...
That pact was intended to bring an end to years of bickering. Instead, it created a new crisis around the leadership of the two most powerful rebel organizations: the 3,000-member Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), led by Salvador Cayetano Carpio, and the 4,000-member People's Revolutionary Army (E.R.P.), headed by Joaquín Villalobos. The guerrillas insist that the struggle has been resolved. So, in a way, it has: Carpio died under mysterious circumstances last year at 63, and his group has suffered a splintering of its forces. Villalobos, 32, has emerged as first among equals...
...ordering Anaya Monies' murder. As a sign of its new, "moderate" direction, it named as Cayetano Carpio's successor Leonel González, 39, a former schoolteacher whose revolutionary specialty is underground organizing. The F.P.L. also acknowledged the breakaway of a more violence-prone splinter faction, the Salvador Cayetano Carpio Revolutionary Workers' Movement...