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...rest of rural El Salvador, the repression from the right continues. When the insurgents declared that they, like their Vietcong predecessors, would swim like fish in an ocean of peasants, Salvadoran leaders announced their determination to "dry up the ocean." Bodies still pile up by the roadways each night, and the terror has created tens of thousands of refugees and thousands of would-be refugees who were killed before they could flee. In the capital city of San Salvador, a "superficial calm" prevails, one visitor reports. It is a calm that almost surely will not last past March, when "free...
...late summer, indicated support for Duarte's 1982 election plan, and opposition to negotiations with the rebels, the course so many European nations have advised. How valid elections can be held when public opponents of exploitation are routinely murdered was not explained. Enough, the State Department says, that El Salvador is "committed to democracy...
CHANGE, THEN, HAS NOT COME to El Salvador. It's been in America, and among Americans of every political bent, that the shift in feeling has taken place. We've all but forgotten the conflict that for a few months occupied much of our attention...
...short memory belongs on the shoulders of American liberals and leftists, the Democratic Party, and our religious leadership. They've let the issue, as they've let many other like it, disappear. It is an old axiom that only the threat of American deaths will arouse American concern; El Salvador seems a case in point. Four dead Yankee Catholics and everyone noticed. "Military advisers," a phrase that sounded like Vietnam, and everyone noticed. "No Draft, No War, U.S. Out of El Salvador" was the most popular chant during Harvard's mid-March demonstration, perhaps for more than its pleasing rhyme...
...Vietnam syndrome--the readiness to forget about the disease as soon as the worst symptoms clear up--took over. There were other causes: nuclear weapons, for one. And Reagan was up to other games: His budget cuts drew all eyes for a few weeks. But more than that, El Salvador didn't matter anymore. Except that thousands were being murdered, thousands more starving, and American shipping in copters and ammunition and claymore mines and advisers and even 30,000 boxes of Crations...