Word: settlements
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Reagan's professed willingness to back regional diplomatic efforts did not represent any new U.S. policy. The Administration still opposes a negotiated settlement in El Salvador that would lead to the guerrillas' sharing political power that they had not won in free elections. Indeed, the word negotiations has become a rallying point for critics who think that the guerrillas would end their rebellion if given a share of government power at the bargaining table. But the tone of Reagan's speech was notably positive about pursuing diplomatic solutions. Only two weeks before, the Administration had been somewhat cool...
...been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily dispatched the night before by Salvadoran security forces." He said the U.S. ought to take up the offer made by some rebel leaders to negotiate a settlement, a prospect most analysts regard as highly dubious...
...biggest winner in the settlement could be the city of Peoria (pop. 125,000), whose residents depend on Caterpillar for one out of every five jobs. Recession and the slumping farm economy had pushed Peoria's unemployment rate to 19.2% before the walkout, and the strike sent it to more than 40%. A wave of corporate defections has compounded the city's problems. Pabst Brewing and Hiram Walker have pulled out of the central-Illinois community in the past two years. Now Caterpillar paychecks will pump badly needed money back into the city and help sales of cars...
...senior U.S. diplomat: "There is not total harmony, but there is now a more common perception of the situation." An aide to Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor also found the exchange of views worthwhile. Said he: "The U.S. recognized the need to negotiate [a peaceful settlement in Central America]. That...
...began their annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians in both Kampuchea and neighboring Thailand. Hanoi's troops ventured a mile...