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...policy. In addition, the Europeans object to seeming inconsistencies in American policy-like refusing to impose a grain embargo on the Soviets while simultaneously demanding sacrifices from the Europeans. Strained by a bewildering array of tensions, including disruptive left-wing demonstrations over nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in El Salvador, the Western Alliance is in greater disarray than at any time since Jimmy Carter's sharp turn against the Soviets after the invasion of Afghanistan...
...debate grows over who is killing whom in El Salvador...
Anywhere else the court appearance might have been a routine event, but in El Salvador it was momentous. As heavily armed members of the Salvadoran national guard stood by, six of their former colleagues appeared last week before a judge in the town of Zacatecoluca. The judge's task: to decide whether the six should stand trial for the brutal murders 14 months ago of three American nuns, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke and Dorothy Kazel, and a U.S. religious lay worker, Jean Donovan. At week's end, the judge ruled that five of the men should be charged...
...first time in El Salvador's four-year-old war against 4,000 to 6,000 Marxist guerrillas, members of the government's 22,000-man security forces were being brought to judicial account over the deaths of noncombatants. Even before the judge's decision, Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, in a national television address, called the men "the only and the true guilty ones" in the crimes. Duarte seemed particularly anxious to squelch accusations that the murders might have been ordered by higher authorities in the Salvadoran military...
Members of the Northampton Committee on El Salvador, the Western Massachusetts Latin American Solidarity Committee and representative of UMass's Radical Student Union the People's Gay Alliance and Students Against Militarism, along with clergymen and businessmen, were at the sot-in the Massachusetts, Daily Collegian, UMass's campus newspaper reported last week...