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...finally settled and his passport definitely lost, Agee could now be forced to return to the U.S. But last week's setback may do little to slow the ex-agent's campaign; due out this month is his latest book: Philip Agee on the CIA and El Salvador...
Fallows has made a dramatic bid for middle ground here. But if the left is to travel toward the center and begin to support a restoration of what Fallows calls the "military spirit," they need many more assurances. If the army is to be used in El Salvador, where we already have military "advisers," then why join? If its goal will be to shoot peasants and defend "authoritarian" regimes, then why wish it better weapons? If the tanks are going to roll into more Vietnams, why should we care if their engines clog with dust...
...another Maryknoll father, Roy Bourgeois, burst into the news when he disappeared in El Salvador, leaving behind a letter that accused the Reagan Administration of providing military aid to a "repressive dictatorship at war with its own people." Maryknoll Superior General James Noonan rushed from the society's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y., to El Salvador and indicated that the priest was the victim of foul play. After all, two Maryknoll nuns and two other missionaries had been murdered in December (six soldiers are currently under provisional arrest for the crime). But, to the embarrassment of Noonan and the whole...
...wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which he was not. The American consul general in El Salvador, Patricia Lasbury, received death threats as a former Maryknoll nun. She once was a nun, but in another order...
...Escoto before he joined the Nicaraguan revolution, lauded Cuba for "advances in a brief span of 20 years [which] are unparalleled in Latin America." The magazine's publisher, Father Darryl Hunt, like the ill-starred Father Bourgeois, has shed all nonpartisanship on the touchy issue of El Salvador. He charges that "the U.S. continues to support a clique of rightist murderers...