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...parties that hurled these epithets at one another throughout the campaign could sit down together as early as April 12 as members of the new constituent assembly to confront the country's deep economic and social problems. That will demand close cooperation and a new start, but El Salvador's history shows that its politicians are slow to forgive or forget...
...George Russell. Reported by Timothy Loughran/San Salvador...
...choice, as In El Salvador, between a right-wing dictatorship and a Marxist dictatorship. I would fight both. Dictatorship is dictatorship, independent of its color...
...embarrassed by its own for-example pleading. Secretary of State Al Haig waved a photo spread from the French Figaro of the "most atrocious genocidal actions" in Nicaragua, which proved to be an old picture of something else. State then proudly produced a live Nicaraguan guerrilla captured in El Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America. CBS sent Mike Wallace to Nicaragua, Ed Rabel...
...well-produced look at three melancholy places. But as in most documentaries, vivid pictures had to be conscientiously "balanced" by words that were inevitably less vivid. In El Salvador viewers saw familiar shootups and corpses in government territory; with the guerrillas, as Moyers said, "you see what you are shown." At the end of 90 minutes, Moyers owlishly summed up in documentary neutralese where "we Americans are": "It is tricky now to tiptoe across a tightrope carrying the past on one shoulder and fear of our enemies on the other." Viewers, after being subjected to so many pathetic widows, arrogant...