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...concern with El Salvador [March 22] should not center on who the guerrillas are, or what their ideology appears to be now, or even how short the current regime falls of our democratic standards. Rather, we must worry about what will surely follow. The Communists will usurp the insurgents' victory, as they did in Cuba. We will have another enemy at our doorstep, and the Salvadoran people will continue to suffer...
...forgotten the missing, dead and wounded of Viet Nam? Will Americans die for the wrong reasons in El Salvador? Will we use our dollars to finance a government that kills priests, nuns and schoolteachers? The U.S. is supporting the wrong side in this...
...blow to the guerillas, a demonstration to the whole world that the people want peace and tranquillity." So declared Jose Maria Fuentes, 65, a craggy-faced carpenter in the provincial city of Chalatenango last week after his fellow citizens had queued up to vote in El Salvador's constituent assembly elections. In cities and towns across the embattled country, more than 1.5 million men and women braved guerrilla threats - and in some cases dodged bullets - to cast their ballots. Defying widespread predictions of a dismal turnout, at least 80% of the electorate - twice the normal figure - took part...
Thus the unresolved election could cause further political polarization and escalating civil war. At stake were not only the future government of El Salvador but also the hopes of the Reagan Administration's entire Central American policy. A repressive right-wing government could be expected to change the junta's land and banking reforms and to multiply human rights abuses, which would undoubtedly lead in turn to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Said Reagan: "It would give us great difficulties if a government appeared on the scene that backed away from reforms that have been instituted...
...still the people came-by hundreds, thousands and hundreds of thousands-defying the guerrillas' threats and claims to their allegiance. Under a sweltering sun in the San Salvador suburb of Mejicanos, voters stood in a half-mile queue while a firefight raged six blocks away. When the action moved closer, the people dropped to the ground until it passed, keeping their places in line. In another northern suburb, San Antonio Abad, voters hid in their homes until the end of a skirmish that left twelve rebels and three soldiers dead. When the fighting stopped about...