Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Both the upbeat As-Safir report and the hasty Iranian denial were received stoically in Washington. Said one senior White House official: "The real problem is that this issue still requires a political decision in Tehran. The political will to end it all simply has not jelled...
Perhaps even more disturbing to the Kremlin, the Polish Communist Party is in disarray; it is seemingly unable to restrain the workers. Its discipline is poor and its morale worse. According to one report, local party groups have been attempting to reorganize without the blessing of the central committee. Astonishingly, an estimated 700,000 Communists, about a fourth of the party membership, have joined Solidarity...
...harshest attack yet on the new unions, and implied a dangerous drift toward lawlessness that needed rectifying. Significantly, the TASS report was broadcast by Radio Moscow, but did not appear in Soviet newspapers, suggesting it was intended for Poland and the West rather than domestic consumption...
While the Rogers mission found nothing to implicate the high military command, there was what the State Department called "circumstantial evidence of possible security force involvement." Among other things, TIME has learned, the still secret U.S. report notes that Salvadoran National Police Chief Carlos López Nuila neglected to put out an "all points alert" after the U.S. embassy told him that the four women were missing. Furthermore, Defense Minister José Guillermo García, an influential right-wing member of the government, promised but failed to order an alert even though he was specifically requested...
...after the murders, according to the report, a priest near the village of Santa Rita Almendros was told by several peasants that they had been ordered by some National Police and local civil guardsmen to bury the bodies of four American women. Informed of this through the office of San Salvador's acting Archbishop Rivera y Damas, Ambassador White drove to the village about 30 miles east of the capital. There the bodies of the victims were found in an unmarked grave...