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LESS THAN TWO WEEKS ago, the ruling regime in El Salvador executed yet another move to repress all avenues of dissent in the tiny war-torn country: It arrested almost all University deans and professors, rounded up every student suspected of sympathizing with the leftist guerrillas and carted them off to detention centers. As anyone familiar with the policies of Duarte's regime knows, many of these professors and students were undoubtably murdered outright; others are being tortured...
...oblivious to the realities of Duarte's policy in dealing with dissidents, President Reagan has instead expressed horror at Soviet support of El Salvador's casualty-ridden guerrilla forces. Rather than reevaluating U.S. policy toward the Central American nation in order to ascertain if it is indeed important enough to turn into the next battlefield of Soviet and U.S. warfare, the Reagan administration is currently deliberating just how much the United States should escalate its aid. The answer is, of course, that the United States should cease all military funding to Duarte's repressive regime. But Reagan's withdrawal...
Chun's visit was only the first of the messages that the Administration sent to the world last week. In another unambiguous signal, Secretary of State Alexander Haig removed Robert White, a career diplomat, as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. White had urged El Salvador's ruling junta to consolidate its power through land redistribution and other reforms. When the Reagan transition team criticized him for acting "in the capacity of a social reformer," he complained to reporters that his effectiveness as ambassador had been undermined...
...Reagan Administration is angered by the Sandinistas' all too enthusiastic support for the leftist rebels in neighboring El Salvador. Documents reportedly captured last month from leftist guerrillas indicate that weapons were offered to El Salvador by the Soviet Union, its East European satellites, Viet Nam and Ethiopia. And as one U.S. official puts it, "All that stuff either came from the moon or it came through Nicaragua." A State Department task force is trying to determine the extent to which the regime is officially involved in the arms traffic. If it concludes that the Sandinistas abetted the shipments...
...what I know my non-minority friends are doing: 1) Some work with SASC (South Africa Solidarity Committee) and although I am a freshman, I'll bet many non-minorities were in the 1978 march of 3000 against apartheid. 2) The majority of the 60 member committee on El Salvador is non-minority. There is going to be a petition-drive, a movie on the 11th and a teach-in on the 22nd. 3) Some are working on getting Third World speakers to come here and come have already worked out Third World forums this year. 4) Some are working...