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43. UPI, BG, March 24, 1983; an 80-word item, but at least it was there.
44. Report on Human Rights, 55-6, 102-5; Herman and Brodhead,
Demonstration Elections, xf.
45. Robert Parry, AP, BG, March 22, 1985; Joel Brinkley, NYT, March 22,
1985; James LeMoyne, NYT, March 24, 1985.
46. Anne Marie O’Conner, CSM, Jan. 29, 1985; also James LeMoyne, NYT,
Jan. 20, 1985. LeMoyne, NYT, Sept. 29, 1985.
47. McClintock, American Connection, I, 343.
48. Stephen Kinzer, NYT, March 3, 1984; Daniel Southerland, CSM, Oct.
12, 1984. Santivanez’s testimony was impugned on the grounds that he
had been given aid by critics of US government policy, an argument that
would eliminate much of the testimony about atrocities of official
enemies over the years. Note that Santivanez’s testimony is considerably
more credible than that of most defectors, since what he reports is hardly
welcome news among those who hold power in the country to which he
defected; in contrast, defectors who tell the story preferred by the state
that presents them to the public are naturally suspect.
49. Laurence Simon and James Stephens, El Salvador Land Reform, 1980-
81, Impact Audit, Oxfam America (February 1981); Bonner, Weakness
and Deceit, 199f.
50. Report on Human Rights, 57, 168-9.
51. TNCW, 387, where such exceptions as I could find are also noted.
52. COHA’s Washington Report on the Hemisphere, Nov. 29, 1983; Chris
Hedges, CSM, Sept. 10, 1984. The Salvadoran Army had also attacked
the University in 1960, beating the rector, jailing students and
employees, ransacking and destroying, and killing one person; Russell, El
Salvador, 43. The improved performance of 1980 reflects 20 years of
US training and the more direct US role, by 1980.
53. TNCW, 391.
54. Report on Human Rights, 60, 124, 126-127; Bonner, Weakness and
Deceit, 206-7, 212.
55. Bonner, Weakness and Deceit, 207; Miami Herald, Dec. 23, 1980.
56. Russell, El Salvador, 135, 138.