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...Haig first cast the Salvadoran struggle as an East-West conflict. The chief elements of U.S. strategy have been to buttress the Salvadoran government with guns, money and American military advisers (who currently number around 37), while encouraging political and economic reforms as well as an improvement in El Salvador's doleful human rights record. The U.S., say Administration officials, has always favored talks with the guerrillas, if they will first agree to participate in the normal Salvadoran political process...
...that emphasis has not always been clear. After U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick visited El Salvador in February, the White House let it be known that it wanted to send more military aid and advisers. Some White House staffers began to second-guess the political judgment of Assistant Secretary Enders, who had never before been considered a soft-liner on U.S. policy in El Salvador. Enders was concerned that congressional support for Administration policy might erode without some display of flexibility on the negotiation issue. The Administration's hardening attitude created the feeling that it would...
...Reagan Administration's goal is to build upon its first efforts to bring democracy to El Salvador. Almost exactly a year ago, 74% of the electorate defied guerrilla threats and voted freely for a Constituent Assembly that is expected to produce a new constitution for the country next month. But since the election, U.S. policy has suffered several major reversals. Right-wing elements, led by Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson, won the upper hand in the Assembly and, in postelection bargaining, tried hard to sabotage U.S.-inspired reforms. The improvement in the observance of human rights...
...suffered two more blows on the human rights front last week. A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...dismantling the 10,000-member Salvadoran internal security forces (which are widely believed to be responsible for the majority of the country's human rights atrocities) and including guerrilla regulars within the Salvadoran army; 3) a continuation, and possible extension, of the U.S.-backed economic reforms in El Salvador; 4) adoption by El Salvador of a non-aligned foreign policy, most likely meaning an end to the country's intimate ties with the U.S.; and 5) an agreement on future elections that would incorporate the insurgents...