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RENO, Nevada--An informal survey of students at the University of Nevada at Reno has found that fewer than 20 percent know the location of El Salvador and only 2.5 percent can accurately describe the situation in the civil war-torn country...
...those polled, 170 said they knew very little about the situation in the Central American republic. Of the 170, 166 thought El Salvador was at war with another country, but couldn't name it. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week...
...issue of a liberal media has cropped up often in recent months because, it appears, of the weekly's growing distrust of the news coverage of the El Salvador war: Columnist Cliff Kincaid drawn an interesting parallel. "In terms of inflammatory media coverage and the fact that outside communist powers are trying to impose a Marxist- Leninist dictatorship on an independent nation, El Salvador is another Vietnam...
These revelations take on an even more ridiculous aura in light of the excuse the Administration put forth for not backing the Mexican peace plan for El Salvador. "The Mexican plan," a senior government official said Saturday, "lacks a crucial element--a commitment by the Nicaraguans that they'll keep the hell out of their neighbors affairs...
Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that U.S. initiatives in Central America are doomed to fail--and fail disastrously. In El Salvador, the extreme right appears likely to win this month's election. The dominant figure in Salvadoran politics would then be Republican Nationalist Alliance leader Roberto D'Aubuisson, who former ambassador Robert White calls a "pathological killer." D'Aubuisson has vowed to intensify the fight against leftist guerillas, making the prospect for a peaceful settlement virtually...