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...have their say on the future, though, we must inquire why the call for free speech that arose after the Kirkpatrick fiasco seems to apply only to those of the ambassador's political persuasion. The United States government recently refused entry visas to the widow of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende and to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both had been invited to address organizations in this country. Both are leftists. And both, like Kirkpatrick, should be able to make their voices heard in the United States without having to fight suppression-whether it be through violent disruption...
...APPROXIMATELY a year before the war, the Reagan Administration, primarily in the person of United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, had been vigorously courting Argentina. Kirkpatrick, hoping to gain practical support for the United States positions concerning Nicaragua and El Salvador, was laying the groundwork for lifting the arms embargo imposed by Jimmy Carter, and according to Argentine sources, had indicated that the U.S. would give any military excursion to the Falklands a sympathetic hearing. But the magnitude of the British response put the United States in the difficult position of deciding where its loyalties lay in the conflict--realizing that...
...April 1981, Roy Prosterman an export who helped the El Salvation government design its land reform system, cancelled a debate scheduled at the Kennedy School one day after part of an 1800 member match against U.S. involvement in El Salvador interrupted a K-School speech he was delivering...
About the situation in El Salvador, the report states that the country is "in transition to a multi-party democracy" and that "there were signs of [human rights] improvement throughout the year." These statements are necessary in order to comply with the 1981 Act of Congress which stipulates the President must show that the government is bringing "an end to the indiscriminate torture and murder of Salvadorean Citizens." Thus, the Report states. "There was a significant decrease in political violence in 1982." This may be true, but political killings, torture and disappearances continued at high levels in 1982. Twenty...
...hundreds of other incidents that can be attributed directly to the Salvadorean government the State Department continues to report that "Whether the Government beats full responsibility for the crimes of certain rightist elements is difficult to establish. To many observers, it is even more difficult to establish that El Salvador has made any substantial human rights progress in 1982. However, the president has duly certified that the government of Roberto d'Aubuisson is fully eligible to receive approximately $125 million in direct military aid in fiscal year...