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...January. Reagan aides have promised that the new Administration will support the junta and the army against the leftists. In addition, a report by Reagan's State Department transition team proposed changes that would curtail the influence of social reformers throughout Latin America. In that climate, El Salvador's rightists might feel free to mount an even more intense confrontation with the left...
...political turmoil in El Salvador has claimed 8,400 lives so far this year; that is roughly one death for every square mile in the tiny Central American country. Last week four Americans became victims of the mindless, increasing violence. Alongside a twisting dirt road, 30 miles east of the capital of San Salvador, peasants found the bodies of three nuns and a Catholic lay worker who had been working with the poor in the countryside. The nuns were Dorothy Kazel, 40, of Cleveland, a member of the Ursuline Order, and two Maryknoll sisters from New York City, Ita Ford...
...reacted swiftly by suspending military and economic aid to El Salvador, $25 million in all, until circumstances of the murders are clarified. The White House also announced that it was dispatching a fact-finding mission to El Salvador; it will be headed by William D. Rogers, who served as Assistant Secretary of State in the Ford Administration. The ruling junta blamed the murders on right-wing terrorists bent on stopping any buildup of leftist sentiment...
Right-wing terrorists, it seems, were also responsible for the abduction and assassination two weeks ago of the country's six leading leftists. Perhaps because courage was the admission price, only about 2,000 people turned out for the leftists' funeral at San Salvador's huge, gray Metropolitan Cathedral. The ceremonies were marked more by anger than sorrow. Shouted the Rev. David Rodriguez, a Salvadoran priest: "We know that in the blood of the martyrs who lie here is the spirit of liberty...
...After the bodies were found, the FDR reacted more angrily. From a haven in Mexico City it accused the junta of backing the killings as part of a "genocide policy." The murders seemed certain to provoke even more bloodletting as leftists exacted retribution. Said a U.S. diplomat in San Salvador: "I can't think of anything that could make this situation worse." The extermination of the left's leadership, in fact, was also a severe blow to any possible peacemaking, simply because there was now no one on the left with whom to discuss a possible...