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...slice in half the $60 million package. And though approving the full amount, the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, like the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tied strings to the money: to get it, the Administration must promise to promote talks between the warring sides in El Salvador...
...money remained in doubt, there were signs that the Administration would try to accommodate Congress on the conditions the legislature wishes to attach to the funds. For the first time, some State Department officials were conceding privately that they can live with committee demands for negotiations in El Salvador, since they doubt that such talks actually would produce power sharing between the warring factions...
Though committee actions are not strictly binding, they have a political force that cannot readily be ignored. If the Administration rejects the committee's demands on the transfer of funds, it risks outright rejection of other requests for military aid to El Salvador that must go through the normal legislative process...
With this in mind, perhaps, the Administration seemed to be giving its El Salvador policy statements a more temperate emphasis. When he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week, Secretary Shultz was calm and steady while under fire from both Republicans and Democrats. He insisted that "we will not support negotiations that short-circuit the democratic process and carve up power behind the people's backs...
...greater progress by the Salvadoran government in stopping the indiscriminate killing of civilians by its soldiers and in punishing any transgressors, Shultz surprised them with his harshest public criticism so far: "You cannot get me to sit here and defend what has happened under the judicial system in El Salvador," he declared. "I won't do it. If they don't clean up this act, the support here is going...