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...holdover," professors must surely have theirs. Undergraduates apply that label-with either derision or respect-to the fire-in-the-berlly jeans and t-shirt radical who does not register for the draft, who protests with signs and slogans in the street U.S. Involvement in El Salvador or Harvard's investments in South Africa, and who celebrates April 19, 1969-the day 400 students took over University Hall-as some sort of Bastille Day equivalent...
...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...
...exchange had an all too familiar ring. Once again a small but vocal number of U.S. legislators were expressing their skepticism at Reagan Administration policy in El Salvador. Once again the Administration was insisting that its combination of support for electoral democracy, social reform and human rights, together with sizable doses of military aid ($26 million for fiscal 1983, $86 million proposed for 1984), was the only solution that could prevent a Communist takeover...
...challenge to Administration policy was a minor but troubling one. For the moment at least, congressional opposition is not as strong as it may appear. The majority of U.S. legislators are trying to ignore the prickly El Salvador issue. Explained Leach: "In the public mind, there's a great wish that the issue would go away. Like Viet Nam, it's something we'd like to forget. But, like any issue, some people won't let it be forgotten, some for political reasons, some for humanitarian...
...those critics, Massachusetts Democrat Gerry Studds, earlier this month persuaded 93 Congressmen to co-sponsor a resolution that would cut off all U.S. military aid to El Salvador on the grounds that the Reagan Administration was mistaken in claiming that there had been significant human rights progress in the country. Studds, who speaks from personal conviction, finds echoes of Viet Nam in the Salvadoran situation. Says he: "The U.S. is backing itself into a corner. There's overwhelming public opposition to the Administration's policy...