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While Reagan and his guests ate lunch at the Capitol building and marched in the inaugural parade, about 500 protesters gathered at the Elipse, a park across the street from the White House, to hear speeches against racism, the draft, and U.S. support for the military junta in El Salvador...
...rally on the Elipse, protesters chanted "No draft, no war, U.S. out of El Salvador," and "General Haig must go, we won't fight for Texaco." Massachusetts organizations at the rally included the Boston chapter of NOW, the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, the Progressive Student Coalition, the Coalition for MX Awareness and the Massachusetts Black Caucus...
...LAST, and undoubtedly most disturbing Central American policy decision, the Carter administration last week resumed military aid to El Salvador's repressive junta. In some ways, it was no surprise that Carter, who for four years has touted human rights, should reveal the hollowness of his ideals in his final presidential flourish. His administration has increased aid to the regime of Jose Napolean Duarte from $1 million to almost $6 million in four years...
During his campaign, Reagan issued a not-so-subtle farewell to human rights, promising to base his foreign policy on "the world as it is." In the case of El Salvador, the president would do well to see the reality of the situation: a repressive military junta opposing a majority of the people and the opposition party they support. The United States must not, for the next four years, continue to support a government that stands only because American guns and money back...
...avoid a debacle, such as those caused by America's self-serving and short-sighted policy in Cuba, Chile and Nicaragua, the United States government should immediately recognize the government supported by the people of El Salvador. If the opposition is to overcome the repressive regime that rules the country by terror now, the United States should either halt its aid to Duarte or, for once, aid the popular forces. Only with the victory of El Salvador's leftist guerrillas will peace return to the embattled Central American country...