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worst massacres took place) was over 400,000, from all causes, with
wide variations from place to place—are unacceptable; see also
Vickery, letter, Far Eastern Economic Review, Feb. 7, 1985. On the
media fabrications at the time, including Lacouture’s in the New York
Review of Books, the ignored US intelligence estimates, and the
scandalous avoidance of the US role, see PEHR, II.
42. Rep. Gerry Studds, Central America, 1981, Report to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, US House of Representatives, March 1981; report of a
three-person congressional delegation.
43. David Blundy, Sunday Times (London), April 26, 1981; Édouard Bailby,
Le Monde diplomatique (Jan. 1981).
44. Report on Human Rights in El Salvador, compiled by Americas Watch
and the American Civil Liberties Union, Jan. 26, 1982 (Vintage, 1982).
45. New England Journal of Medicine, April 28, 1983. Capital flight is
estimated at $1 billion as compared with total US aid of $1.7 billion;
see the bipartisan report by Representatives Jim Leach and George Miller
and Senator Mark Hatfield, “U.S. Aid to El Salvador,” Feb. 1985.
46. Ross Gelbspan, BG, Sept. 23, 1985.
47. Moe Snell, In These Times, Oct. 2, 1985; George Will, “ACLU swerve to
the left,” BG, Sept. 28, 1985; NYT Oct 23, 1985.
48. John Loftus, “Secrets of State,” Boston Review, July, 1985; William
Doherty, BG, Feb. 19, 1985.
49. William Shannon, BG, Feb. 2, 1983.
50. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 12, 1985; Mary
Jo McConahay, Pacific News Service, Feb. 25-March 1, 1985.
51. Elizabeth Hanly, In These Times, April 17, 1985.
52. Alexander Cockburn, Nation, June 1, 1985. See Draining the Sea . . .
(Americas Watch, March 1985), Free Fire (Americas Watch, Aug.
1984), and earlier reports. On Operation Speedy Express, one of the
many US Vietnam atrocities beside which My Lai pales into
insignificance, see PEHR, I, 5.1.3. See TNCW, chap. 5, for discussion of
the treatment of this and other atrocities by Guenter Lewy, an American
scholar whose falsifications and vulgar apologetics for mass murder are