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...either a bold bid for peace or aclever propaganda ploy. Shadowed by bodyguards in the venerable Mexico City Foreign Correspondents Club, Guillermo Manuel Ungo, 51, president of El Salvador's Democratic Revolutionary Front (F.D.R.), a leftist political alliance that boycotted last March's elections, faced an overflow audience. Alongside was Ana Guadalupe Martínez, a representative of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (F.M.L.N.), the Marxist-led organization that unites the country's five guerrilla factions. Ungo and Martínez announced that their groups had offered to begin unconditional direct negotiations with the Salvadoran government...
García Márquez has been a vocal irritant to rightist regimes from South Africa to Salvador, counts Socialist French President François Mitterrand as a personal friend, and once donated the $22,000 proceeds of a 1972 literary prize to a small left-wing group in Venezuela. But the author refuses to be categorized. "I have never belonged to a Communist Party," he says, "and my only weapon is my typewriter." That weapon has proved to be a formidable capitalist tool. Solitude alone has 10 million copies in print in 32 languages, and has opened publishers...
...others have placed full-page ads in local newspapers defending their products. To-Ricos, a poultry concern, helped arrange for a TV appearance by a U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspector, who assured the public that it was safe to eat inspected local meat. At a legislative hearing, Salvador Pizarro, president of the Puerto Rican Farmers' Association, suggested that the estrogen controversy is a plot by food importers to destroy domestic production. Meanwhile, the milk industry has threatened to sue Sáenz and Pérez Comas...
...United States is at least partially to blame for the continued chaos in El Salvador. Somehow, the Reagan Administration has managed to assert that the new government is making progress on human rights. This runs contrary to all available evidence but suffices to convince Congress to send more guns and military assistance to El Salvador So'd' Aubuisson believes he has a free hand to do as he pleases...
...Administration and Congress should stop supplying the Salvadoran military and start putting pressure on d'Aubisson to continue land reform and seek an agreement with the guerrillas. American involvement in El Salvador--which will amount to more than $200 million for fiscal 1983--serves no constructive purpose if it maintains the status quo. What influence we have would be better used to effect pragmatic change. For the time being, though, we are only adding fuel to the fire...