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...unusually blunt address two weeks ago, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton angered conservative Salvadoran businessmen by warning them that U.S. military and economic aid could be cut off if the country did not improve its record on human rights. Last week the Administration issued conflicting signals on whether the speech actually represented U.S. policy. "The President himself had questions about it," a senior White House aide said privately. "We drew him [Hinton] up pretty short...
...surprise move by judge Bernardo Rauda Murcia reflects in part the Reagan Administration's new-found desire to get tough with El Salvador's extreme-right government that came to power last spring. Three weeks ago, U.S. ambassador Dean Hinton, who had previously been reticent to criticize the Salvadoran government, shocked a gathering of business executives in San Salvador by berating them on the human rights issue. Unless the Latin American government seeks conciliation with the left and puts an end to the terror inflicted upon civilians. Hinton declared that the United States will halt military aid to El Salvador...
...Hinton delivered his warning at a luncheon meeting of El Salvador's influential American Chamber of Commerce. In accented Spanish, he told 300 Salvadoran business leaders that they must begin to face up to the most grisly aspect of their country's three-year civil war against Marxist-led guerrillas: the murder of some 30,000 Salvadoran civilians and at least six Americans at the hands of paramilitary death squads widely believed in most cases to have connections with the local security forces. It was a subject, Hinton told his audience, that "so many of you, because...
...Hinton has delivered the same message before, but never in such bold language. He clearly had in mind the U.S. congressional hearings on El Salvador that are scheduled for January, when the Reagan Administration must once again certify that the country has made progress on human rights and social reforms to justify the approval of a requested $166.3 million in U.S. military and economic aid during fiscal 1983. Of particular concern to the Administration is the refusal of a Salvadoran judge to try a local army officer who has been accused of ordering the 1981 murders of two U.S. land...
...response of the Salvadoran business community to Hinton's speech offered few grounds for optimism. In addition to castigating the Ambassador for his words, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry advertisement referred to U.S. blemishes, including bygone lynch laws and the continued existence of America's own criminal Mafia. Friendship between nations, said the advertisement, is "a generous sentiment, not subject to conditions." Alas, that is hardly ever so in international relations. As Hinton warned, friendships that come under intolerable strain can also come...