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This week, Reagan is meeting with Jose Lopez Portillo, Mexico's president. Portillo is bound to repeat to Reagan what he has said about Latin America in the past: don't interfere. Time after time, in Cuba, Nicaragua, and now El Salvador, American support for right-wing autocracies has turned the popular revolutionary groups in these countries--who achieve power in the long run if not in the short--against the U.S. and driven them into the arms of the Soviet Union. Moreover, continuing to support "mildly repressive" regimes in the name of stability, as Kirkpatrick suggests, will bring...
...liberating" neighbor; Iran and Iraq close the year at each other's throats. In between, Cambodians are starved out of existence; terrorists go about murdering 80 or more in Bologna, and a mere four outside a Paris synagogue. In Turkey, political violence kills 2,000; in El Salvador, more than 9,000 die in that country's torment. All this on top of natural disasters: Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington State; one earthquake in Algeria kills 3,000; another in Italy takes the same toll. Human enterprise is tested, and responds with black market coffins...
...have expressed a good deal of interest in improving relations with Central America. What specifically should the U.S. be doing to help restore stability in the latest trouble spot, El Salvador...
...that is that there must be a more practical and better relationship than we have had because of [a common] interest in freedom. Maybe our first approach should be to find out their suggestions. How can we mutually benefit each other? I look forward to trying that. Concerning El Salvador, I think that there is one thing you have to say about the situation there: it is almost a kind of civil war. When that is happening, and if reforms are needed -and admittedly reforms are needed-you do not try to fight a civil war and institute reforms...
...Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by James Willwerth/San Salvador...