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Oct. 15, 1985. We return to the contra programs, as the functioning
leadership sees them.
29. In These Times, Sept. 4, 1985; NYT, July 18, 1985; editorial, BG, Sept.
14, 1985; Latinamerica Press, Oct. 3, 1985, a Church-based
publication in Peru.
30. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Dept. of State, Feb. 2,
1981, 427.
31. El Salvador: One Year of Repression, Legal Aid Service of the
Archdiocese of San Salvador, World Council of Churches, 1981.
32. Country Reports, 1981, 427-8.
33. Alan Riding, NYT, Sept. 27, 1981.
34. Editorial, “Reform in El Salvador,” WP-MG Weekly, Feb. 22, 1981; NYT,
Dec. 7, 1980. On the media suppression, see TNCW, 37, 389, 392,
429-30. For extensive documentation of the pervasive double standard,
which is extraordinary in scale, see the references of note 2 in the
Introduction, and Herman, Real Terror Network.
35. Reuters, NYT, Aug. 22, 1985.
36. “Recent Political Violence in El Salvador,” Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, Oct. 5, 1984; Álvaro Magaña, March 1982. Cited by
Central America Crisis Monitoring Team, In Contempt of Congress
(Institute for Policy Studies, 1985).
37. Aryeh Neier, “Exporting Persecution,” Nation, Sept. 7, 1985.
38. McClintock, American Connection, II, 280, citing a Reuters report. See
PEHR, I; TNCW, introduction.
39. Stephen Kinzer, NYT, June 30, 1985; Economist, July 27, 1985.
40. Barbara Crossette, NYT, July 8, 1985; as for the coup, the official
claim of Communist Party involvement is dubious at best, a matter
discussed in important forthcoming work by Peter Dale Scott.
41. Philip Windsor, The Listener (BBC, London), July 11, 1985. See
Michael Vickery, Cambodia (South End, 1983), the major scholarly
study of the period, widely and favorably reviewed in England, Australia
and elsewhere but totally ignored in the press here because the
conclusions—that the total population decline through 1978 (when the