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Indeed, in Washington the most extreme critics of the Administration's policy are likening the growing U.S. role in El Salvador to the early stages of American involvement in Viet Nam (see ESSAY). Other, less strident critics, such as Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, last week helped to introduce a joint congressional resolution urging the U.S. to promote a negotiated settlement between the government and its leftist opponents. Three delegations of congressional Democrats flew to El Salvador over the weekend to take a closer look at local conditions. Even as the Congressmen began...
Educators on the Committee on Ability Testing, which prepared the report for the council, say the only strident public reaction so far has come the small group of standardized testing critics who believe the report lets the tests off too easily...
...government blamed the Gdansk upheaval on the Reagan Administration's increasingly strident criticism of martial law. In particular, they attacked the U.S.-sponsored telecast Let Poland Be Poland, which was beamed by satellite to at least 50 countries last week. Complained Warsaw's party daily, Trybuna Ludu: "It is not by accident that the street demonstrations in Gdansk coincided with the so-called Solidarity Day [Jan. 30] proclaimed in the United States...
Liberal criticism, if less strident and more focused than that of the majority opinion, can help temper U.S. conduct in El Salvador. Critics must insure that El Salvador remains a non-military political problem and the solution primarily a political-economic one. Specifically they can help insure that we use our support of centrist President Jose Napoleon Duarte to pressure him to halt the excesses of the far right, plan for free elections, and go ahead with far-reaching land reforms...
...only bang talked about in the area was the one feared by local seismologists. Weakened by age and decay, the aging structure was likely to collapse in even a moderate earthquake. After three years of strident debate, the legislature discarded the idea of new $100 million office towers and opted for renewal...