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NATION AND WORLD
Death squads in El Salvador may face fight
University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1983
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadore officials said yesterday that they expect an army crackdown soon on rightist "death squads" to loiter in more than half of 45,000 political killings in the four-year-old civil war.
Two officials, who asked not to be identified, cited a hardline speech against death squands last Friday by Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, the arrests the same day of four Americans who were recently recent army shake-up as evidence the government recognizes the need to curb death squad activities.
THE SO-CALLED “certification law” required Reagan to vouch every 10 days that human rights conditions improving so that arms aid could continue.
"It is clear to us that something has to be done about the death squads. And don't forget, (U.S.) Congress can always pass new laws," he said.
President Reagan's veto of legislation linking military assistance to an improved human rights climate will not abate the need for army to curb abuses, one official said.
A surge in death squad killings and an expiration of the law in September.
Human rights groups and U.S. Embassy watchdogs say the death squares are run by retired and active-duty military officers and have been used for more than half of the 45,000 political slayings since war broke out in 1979.
Some critics said Reagan's action would counter a recent U.S. drive for a crackdown.
Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, in his Sunday homily at the Metropolitan Cathedral, said 17 people died last week in death squash killings.
Rivera y Damas praised U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering's call for a "national consensus" to stamp out the bands and the pledge from Vides Casanova "to proceed with the force of law" against the killers.
Druse leader offers to free Christians trapped by siege
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim Drusen leadler Wadd Jumbelt yesterday offered 25,000 Christians besieged in Deir el Qamar their freedom "to join their families for the sake of peace" and cautiously welcomed the resture.
The offered came one week after Pope John Paul II prayed for an end to the siege, which enters its third month today. Those trapped include Christian militiamen and civilians who fled from other Christian villages in the Shou mountains outside Beirut.
"There are no preconditions to the measure," said Fuad Salman, secretary-general of Jumblatt's party. "All the Lebanese who are in Deir el Qamar and the Lebanese forces (a rightist Christian militia) will be given 24 days to join their families for the Christmas and New Year holidays."
About 3,500 members of the Lebanese Forces have been trapped in the eastern Shouf mountain village since bloody shouting broke
out in September between the Christian militia and the Druse Muslims. Jumblatt's order would total of about 25,000 Christians.
DRUSE MILITIA HAVE often barred supply convicts from reaching the town and the population has fuel, food, water, fuel and warm clothing.
Former President Camille Chamoun, a native of Deir el Qamar, asked Jumlatt to guarantee that the International Red Cross would be allowed to supply the village with basic necessities regularly since most residents have nowhere else to go.
"Although I appreciate the measure announced by Mr. Jumblatt, I feel that this is not enough," Chamoun told reporters. "I expect clarifications from Mr. Jumblatt on happens after the ten-day deadline."
A spokesman for the Christian militia said, "We have yet to receive details of the announcement before Monday." The spokesman said a broad sense it is a positive step. "
SCHWAEBISCH GMUEND, West Germany — Three West Germans and an American priest cut through barbed wire at a U.S. base yesterday and used crowbars and hammers to smash a nuclear missile transport, officials said.
By United Press International
Tractor bashed at missile base
U. S. military police arrested the four anti-nuclear activists and turned them over to West German police. None was immediately identified.
The anti-missile Plowshares movement, which organized the intrusion to protest NATO stationing of U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe, said the tractor was used to haul Pershing-2 missiles
But a U. S. Army spokesman said that the tractor was used to teach soldiers to
THE BASE, THE U.S. Army's 56th Field Artillery Brigade in Schwischbau Gmued, a small town 35 miles east of Stuttgart, has been the site of antinuclear demonstrations and protest actions since the West German parliament voted Nov. 22 to proceed with the assault on U.S. Pershing-2 and cruise missiles.
The Army said that the four got into the motor pool but did not penetrate to
the more closely guarded missiles area of the brigade. A Pershing missiles unit.
The brigade was equipped with Pershing-1 missiles, but there has been no official announcement that the older missiles were replaced with the U.S. has confirmed that Pershing-25 have arrived in West Germany.
The U.S. priest is a Roman Catholic who is an associate of the Berrigan brothers. American priests active in the Church are a campaign, a Plowshares spokesman said.
THE ACTIVISTS SMASHED the tractor with crowbars and hammers for about 10 minutes, breaking windows and damaging the hydraulic system and body, until a soldier called military police, the Plowshares spokesman said. The four then sat on the ground and sang peace songs, the spokesman said. Plowshares estimated damage at $7,000.
The stationing of U.S. missiles has sparked nuclear incidents around the world.
In Brussels, Belgium, representatives of the NATO allies readied themselves for a meeting to open today. They intend to send a clear signal to Moscow that they are willing to resume talks in Geneva on medium-range
nuclear missiles but without any unilateral concessions from the West.
The week-long NATO meeting also will examine ways to improve conventional arms, NATO sources said "Based on firmness, we have to reaffirm our willingness to negotiate with the Soviets," an allied diplomat said.
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NATO SOURCES AGREED that the West should stick to the solid position it has taken in the Geneva Intermediate-range Nuclear Force talks: stationing of 572 Pershing-2 and cruise missiles unless agreement on limiting such weapon systems is reached in Geneva. The Soviets walked out of the talks.
The West German newspaper Bild am Sonntag yesterday said extremist members of the anti-missile movement carried out 11 sabotage acts between Nov. 3 and Nov. 24 on trains carrying military supplies from Bremerhaven, the main port used by the U.S. Army, to NATO installations in West Germany.
Asked to comment on the report, a West German police spokesman said, "There's something to it," but refused to give details.
The newspaper said trains were shot at railways blocked, and signal equipment damaged.
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