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...fall far short of accepted inter national standards"), Cuba ("Freedoms of speech and press do not exist") and Nicaragua ("The human rights situation deteriorated markedly in 1982"). But other regimes that have been accused of serious human rights violations by watchdog organizations like Amnesty International get off lightly: El Salvador ("signs of improvement throughout the year"), Argentina ("significant expansion of civil and political liberties") and Turkey ("Politically motivated killings . . . have now virtually stopped...
...weary U.S. diplomats know all too well, the protracted civil war in El Salvador is as much a psychological struggle as a military one. In military terms, the war remains at a stalemate. On other fronts, however, the struggle is definitely heating up. Two skirmishes...
...Salvador's Comalapa International Airport, smiles and warm handshakes were the only weapons on display last week, as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and a swarm of local dignitaries turned out to welcome U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick on the fourth stop of a five-nation Latin American tour. On her arrival, Kirkpatrick declared that the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador are "not winning anything." The Salvadorans had a message of their own for Kirkpatrick to pass on to the Reagan Administration: they want an addition of at least $35 million...
That feeling was bolstered last week by a Washington Post report that Assistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Enders, chief architect of the State Department's policy toward El Salvador, had recommended to the National Security Council that negotiations with the guerrillas get under way. The Post report was quickly disavowed, however, by State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg. Said Romberg: "We oppose negotiations over power sharing." Despite that denial, signs pointed to another round of political infighting over El Salvador...
...lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff Editor Walter demons and Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin Bernheimer of Wagnerian opera productions for film and television...