berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman) (03/22/85)
Chicago Tribune 3/22:
"A former high-ranking intelligence official of the Salvadoran
Government chanrged Thursday that a man who has been a senior
officer of the largest US-backed Nicaraguan rebel group 'played
a key role' in organizing and training El Salvador's Death
Squads.
Colonel Roberto Santivanez, who headed El Salvador's intelligence
agency for several years, also said the [Contra] officer, Ricardo
Lau received payment of $120,00 for arranging the death-squad
execution of El Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero."
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This is the crud that President Reagan calls "the moral equavalent
of our founding fathers" and "freedom fighters." This is the crud that
our tax-dollars have been supporting in Central America. Surely it
is time to say no more aid to the Contras.
-Andy Berman