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...civilian death toll in El Salvador had gone from 160 a month to, say, 143, then the Reagan Administration could assert that the government of El Salvador was making progress toward protecting human rights. But you report that civilian deaths rose from 160 a month to 177 during a half-year period. How can our Government possibly claim that the human rights situation has improved...
...consistent with the President's starkly anti-Communist world view. And while his policy pronouncements sometimes seem awkward or belligerent, the President's deployments have not been reckless. Direct confrontation with the Soviets has been avoided, and U.S. casualties (six killed in Lebanon, one in El Salvador) have been...
...that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office, and approved an emergency shipment of arms to that country in the last days of his Administration...
...muscle flexing was beginning to pay off. Until recently, said the Secretary, there had been "no incentive" for the Sandinistas, the Salvadoran guerrillas, the Cubans or the Soviets to believe that "anything credible" stood in the way of the "imposition of Communist rule by armed force in El Salvador and the rest of Central America." Now, said Shultz, these countries could clearly see that "a victory by the far left through force is not in the cards...
...interest in finding a diplomatic solution to the Central American dilemma. Last week, after elaborate planning, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone met secretly with Ruben Zamora, 40, a leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, which represents the five guerrilla organizations that are fighting under a joint banner in El Salvador. In the past, the U.S. had refused to deal directly with the Salvadoran guerrillas, arguing that to do so would undermine the legitimacy of the U.S.-supported government in El Salvador...