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...Secretary steered a tricky diplomatic course, however. When Senators argued that money should be linked to El Salvador's speeding the painfully slow process of bringing to trial the soldiers suspected of killing four churchwomen from the U.S. in 1980, Shultz objected. He said such an American insistence would "denigrate" the very judicial system the U.S. wants to strengthen...
...Senate subcommittee was far from totally satisfied with what Shultz offered. "We condemn their corruption and denial of human rights," said Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii about the Salvadoran government. "But these abominations still persist. Why do we not lower the boom?" Complained Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "El Salvador is just thumbing their nose at us. They're saying give us dollars and go to hell." Then the subcommittee, which has a 5-to-4 Republican majority, voted 7 to 2 to let the Administration shift the full $60 million to El Salvador, but only...
Compared with what happened on the Hill next, the Administration had got off easily. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, members decided by "consensus" rather than a recorded vote to let Reagan transfer only $30 million to El Salvador. In addition, they called for "unconditional negotiations" in El Salvador and asked the Administration to urge the Salvadoran government to speed prosecution of those suspected of killing the American women...
...congressional pressure on El Salvador actually is more an argument over means than goals. Both the Administration and its critics want participation by the leftists in free and fair elections and an end to the fighting. As one senior U.S. official analyzed it: "What they [Congress] don't want is to be on the side of the bad guys. What they do want is to make it clear that the U.S. is not the obstacle to a political solution. The guerrillas are the obstacle." The congressional committees hope to use the leverage of restricting military aid in order...
...SALVADOR by Joan Didion