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That this policy is inappropriate is becoming increasingly obvious. The movement in opposition to U.S. military aid to El Salvador is growing not only in Congress, but also in the U.S. religious community, and among the American public as a whole. Bishop John E. McCarthy, speaking for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, stated that "we feel it is our duty to challenge the public policy of the American government, which is arming, training, and guiding military forces which are obviously oppressing its people...
...Reagan Administration's praise for the country's scheduled March elections. Thus the Administration gladly certified that the Salvadoran government "is committed to the holding of free elections... and to that end has demonstrated its good faith efforts to begin discussions with all major political factions in El Salvador." Indeed elections will take place, but without the discussions required by Congress. The opposition coalition of labor unions church groups and peasant organizations known as the FDR has refused to participate, fearing that they will suffer the same fate as hundreds of other moderate political leaders and popular activists who have...
...missionary with a sixth accomplice turning state's evidence The trial appears to be timed to influence American political and Congressional opinion but there is hope that some justice will be done in but one of the thousands of tragedies which have recently occurred in El Salvador in a statement that reveals the mentality of the Salvadoran military the army sergeant who ordered the killing of the four women justified their slaughter on the grounds that they were guerrillas and subversives." In contrast to the case of the religious workers the investigation into the murder of the two agrarian advisors...
...spite of Congressional initiatives, an increasingly vocal opposition movement in the United States and a hopeless and spiraling escalation of violence in El Salvador, the Reagan Administration continues to support a military solution to the Salvadoran conflict. The Administration recently cent $55 million in emergency military assistance to the Salvadoran junta and has initiated a program in which the U.S. Army is training 1600 Salvadoran soldiers and officers in the United States. Military and to El Salvador could rise to over $100 million next year, accompanied by an increase in the number of military advisors...
President Reagan certification of military and amounts to a deliberate misrepresentation of the situation The significance of this policy goes beyond providing weapons to the El Salvadoran military On February 11 White stated in the Boston Globe that "the military and economic elites of El Salvador have developed their own rationale to justify their systematic extermination of political leaders, union members, clergy, journalists and campesinos They insist that the Reagan leader ship secretly agrees with their terrorist methods ... President Reagan breathed new life into this chilling theory when he certified that the Salvadoran military was making a concerted effort...