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THERE is, as President Reagan would say, a clear and present danger to U.S. interests posed by the ongoing conflict in El Salvador. But that danger comes not so much from the Salvadoran left as it does from the Administration's refusal to seek a compromise between the guerillas and the right. Washington's plan--announced last week--to increase the number of U.S. military "advisors" in El Salvador is a disturbing sign that the worst may be yet to come...
...pilgrimage begins Wednesday in relatively placid Costa Rica, the base from which he will make hops to three other nations. One will be Nicaragua, which is ruled by a Marxist-dominated government in which several priests hold high positions despite papal displeasure. John Paul will visit Panama and El Salvador, the first time a modern Pope has traveled to a nation in the throes of an all-out civil war. Then he moves on to Guatemala, where he will meet General Efrain Rios Montt, an eccentric born-again Protestant whose regime is accused of anti-Catholic bias as well...
...torn El Salvador poses the greatest security problems for the Pope. The government has turned down the Vatican's call for a cease-fire while John Paul is in the country. As it is, the Pope will have to make peace within the church. Conservative supporters of the government fear that he is coming to make a plea for "dialogue" with the rebels, while some proponents of liberation theology see the Pontiff as a friend of the ruling "oligarchy." Caught in the middle is Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, the temporary administrator of the Archdiocese in the capital city...
...have unwittingly encouraged the present civil war. After the Medellin conference, Salvadoran Catholics organized "base communities" that evolved into political cells. In reaction, right-wing vigilantes declared open season on Catholic lay workers and missionaries suspected of leftist activity. A pivotal event was the 1980 assassination in San Salvador of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, an outspoken opponent of the government, while he was saying Mass. Romero has become a martyr to the poor and to the rebellious left. John Paul may pray at Romero's tomb in the Metropolitan Cathedral, a gesture fraught with political significance. The right wing...
...sounded like they prelude to a dramatic reversal of American foreign policy. A cutoff of military aid to the ruling regime in EI Salvador perhaps, or a severing of U.S. ties with South Africa? No way Shultz was outlining a plan called "Project Democracy." which the Reagan Administration intends to start up as the latest weapon in its ongoing ideological crusade against Communism...