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...Sandinistas have announced that 1,000 Cuban advisers have left Nicaragua and that others will leave if El Salvador and Honduras expel their U.S. advisers. The government has also let it be known that leftist Salvadoran rebels are no longer welcome on Nicaraguan soil, forcing them to find another haven. In addition, the Sandinistas have hinted that elections will be held in 1985, and have made overtures to leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the country's embattled business community to sit down and discuss their differences...
Still, the rattled nerves in Managua could only have pleased the Reagan Administration in Washington, which has long sought to curb Nicaraguan support for leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The four nations that form the so-called Contadora Group (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela) announced last week that all the region's governments, including even a wary Nicaragua, had agreed on a schedule for substantive discussions about a comprehensive Central American peace plan. If the Big Pine II exercises and Grenada invasion have encouraged Nicaragua's cooperation, said a State Department official tartly, "so much the better...
...Administration has also come under mounting criticism in Congress and elsewhere for its policies in El Salvador. Since 1979, right-wing death squads that are backed, and in many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return...
This message apparently was not enough to prevent yet another string of atrocities. In Copapayo, some 45 miles northeast of San Salvador, survivors told foreign journalists last week that troops of El Salvador's elite Atlacatl battalion herded at least 20 women and children into a house, then turned machine guns on them. In a separate incident near by, the soldiers reportedly fired on a group of more than 30 civilians, killing some outright and forcing others into a lake, where they drowned. Said a guerrilla boastfully: "This type of behavior reflects the agony of an army that...
...opportunity to embarrass the government by bringing to light the weaknesses in our foreign policy. One Harvard student asked Weinberger how he could justify our aggression toward Nicaragua and Grenada, countries which are trying to alleviate their poverty, while at the same time supporting the government in El Salvador. Unfortunately, Weinberger's justification of our Central American policy based on five hundred thankful medical students was stifled by cat calls and chanting. The media did not focus on Weinberger's vacuous response but instead turned their camera on ketchup stained apparitions of death, and screaming Harvard students...