El Salvador and Nicaragua
Your editorial “Salvador Peace Glimmer” (Sept. 20) was right on the money--as long as U.S. aid continues to flow unrestricted to those who do not want to make peace in El Salvador the prospects for peace will be dim.
Your stance is articulately supported by Kenneth Sharpe who explained that the Salvadoran military “continuing a war that is personally profitable and paid for with the lives of junior officers and forcibly enlisted draftees is preferable to giving up their historic power and privilege--as long, that is, as the United States foots the bill” (Op-Ed Page, Sept. 22).
Sharpe thus supports your conclusion, “No peace plan will work in El Salvador unless the generals and colonels support it. And they are unlikely to cooperate unless their North American paymasters insist on it.”
That puts the ball in our court. It is up to each of us to contact our congressional representatives and help them see the light . . . the glimmer that will grow and surely bring peace if not smothered by U.S. taxpayer dollars to the Salvadoran military.
MARY BRENT WEHRLI
Executive Director
Southern California Ecumenical
Council Interfaith Taskforce
on Central America
Los Angeles
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