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...human rights. Said one: "I would have liked the U.S. retribution against the Soviets better if it had also included the rightist military dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere." When the U.S. abstained from voting for a Dutch-initiated resolution calling for cessation of all arms traffic into El Salvador and a special U.N. investigation of human rights violations there, the attitude toward the Americans turned distinctly chilly...
...morning early last week, three members of El Salvador's ruling civilian-military junta were busy making surprisingly festive appearances at widely separated haciendas. At a rich estate in the San Isidro Valley, José Antonio Morales Ehrlich addressed a solemn crowd of peasants gathered on the soccer field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation...
Even as U.S. military advisers continued to arrive in El Salvador last week, including the first of 15 Special Forces Green Berets, along with weapons and equipment, the controversy over stepped-up U.S. aid continued in Washington. Former Ambassador Robert White, recently fired by the Reagan Administration, has repeatedly charged that the Salvadorans did not want or need, and could not absorb, such large amounts of new weaponry. He has also said that the Pentagon exerted considerable pressure on the Duarte regime mostly because the Reagan Administration wanted to make a big show of its opposition to Soviet and Cuban...
...Salvador's leftist guerrillas launched their unsuccessful "final offensive," a squad of National Police raided a small grocery store in San Salvador. Hidden behind a hollow wall, they found a plastic garbage bag and a large suitcase, both filled with papers. At first the papers sat on a dusty, police-office desk; no one imagined that the scores of documents would provide most of the U.S. proof that the Cubans and Soviets supplied arms to the Salvadoran guerrillas. Their recovery was due to the enterprise, and luck, of Diplomat Jon Glassman, 37, a political counselor at the U.S. embassy...
...January, Glassman arrived in San Salvador to seek information about how the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons. The Salvadoran general staff had already provided some captured documents, including an account of an arms shopping trip made last year by a Salvadoran Communist official to Moscow, Hanoi and Soviet bloc capitals. But there was no evidence that any weapons had been delivered or shipped to nearby countries. Discouraged, Glassman was about to return to Mexico City when he decided to ask the National Police. They gave him the grocery-store papers...