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...Central America at least, U.S. troops are not taking casualties. But the proximity of El Salvador and Nicaragua and the assertiveness...
...border areas of Honduras and Costa Rica. In a letter to O'Neill, Secretary Shultz pleaded for continued funding, arguing that regular attacks by the U.S.-backed contra guerrillas in Nicaragua provide essential pressure on the Sandinistas to cut back their support of Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador...
...January, the Henry Kissinger-led commission on Central America, which is just back from a one-country-a-day tour of the region, will give its recommendations to the President. The commission's stop in El Salvador may have been the most significant: leaving his talks with the Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing President of the Constituent Assembly, freely acknowledged that right-wing death squads, now resurgent and responsible for at least 100 killings a week, are often commanded by Salvadoran government soldiers. Back in Washington at week...
Kissinger and company met with Calero and with Guillermo Ungo, the political leader of El Salvador's rebel coalition...
...killings, and the brazen release of the videotape, were the most dramatic evidence yet of a grisly new public relations campaign being staged by El Salvador's infamous "death squads." The right-wing terrorist groups have plagued the country since the beginning of El Salvador's guerrilla war in 1979. The recent attacks, how ever, have been aimed at influential targets, such as student leaders, professors and labor officials who are considered sympathetic to the left...