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...Chalatenango, was the first assault since a military shake-up sent two officers to posts overseas shortly before Duarte's inauguration. Another auspicious sign for Duarte came when a Salvadoran judge sentenced five former National Guardsmen to 30 years in prison for the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen. As a result, the U.S. Congress will release $19.4 million in military aid that it froze pending resolution of the case...
Congress approved $64.8 million in military aid to El Salvador this year, but withheld $19 million more until the suspects accused of killing four U.S. churchwomen in December 1980 are brought to trial. It also passed legislation requiring a cutoff in military aid unless the President could certify that El Salvador had made progress on human rights. Reagan used a pocket veto to kill the bill in November...
...Tyler submitted his 101-page special report on the case to the State Department. According to those who have seen the classified document, Tyler found that the U.S. embassy in San Salvador pressed the murder investigations properly. It now seems likely that the five Guardsmen charged with murdering the churchwomen will finally be tried. The Salvadoran government has a large incentive to do justice in the case: if no trial is held, Congress has ordered that U.S. military aid shrink 30%, or $20 million this fiscal year...
...puzzling leaks and wild rumors, he would have to break the news openly at his very next public appearance. That happened to be a totally incongruous event, a welcoming address to 200 women leaders of Christian evangelical groups visiting Washington. After the usual innocuous pleasantries, the President told the churchwomen that he had reviewed the qualifications of "more than two dozen fine potential nominees" to succeed James G. Watt as Secretary of the Interior and settled on a man whose name was not on that list: National Security Adviser William Clark...
Garcia was succeeded by Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 44, formerly head of the 3,000-man Salvadoran National Guard, some of whose members are charged with murdering four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador in 1980. The new Defense Minister is expected to turn control of the war effort over to qualified regional military commanders. Says a U.S. military official in San Salvador: "Vides Casanova understands that this war is being fought in the minds of the people and not over a particular piece of ground." A renewed Salvadoran government offensive against the guerrillas is expected within the next eight weeks...