Volume 31, Number 10 · June 14, 1984
The Saving of El Salvador
By Christopher Dickey
Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador
by Raymond Bonner
Times Books, 408 pp., $16.95
Rift and Revolution: The Central American Imbroglio
edited by Howard J. Wiarda
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 392 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Violent Neighbors: El Salvador, Central America and the United States
by Tom Buckley
Times Books, 358 pp., $17.95
The Morass: United States Intervention in Central America
by Richard Alan White
Harper and Row, 319 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Situación Revolucionaria y Escalada Intervencionista en la Guerra Salvadoreña DF, CP 06700)
by Comandancia General del FMLN
Ediciones Sistema Radio Venceremos (Apartado Postal 7–907, México, 57 pp., no price listed
The crisis that first gave José Napoleón Duarte the title of president in El Salvador began on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. A hundred or more armed men calling themselves the Maximiliano Hernández Martínez Anti-Communist Brigade surrounded a Jesuit boarding school on one of San Salvador's busiest streets. The political leadership of El Salvador's rebel opposition, the directorate of the Revolutionary Democractic Front (FDR), was meeting there and the five top leaders were dragged away, tortured, and killed.
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