Taxpayers Won’t Subsidize Salvador Mayhem: Sen. Dodd

Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), speaking about the brutal murder of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador, said today that American taxpayers will not “subsidize mayhem.”

“If in fact it proves that the right wing or the military were involved in this carnage . . . then I think you will see a change in the Congress,” Dodd said on NBC’s “Today” show.

“I don’t believe the American taxpayers are going to subsidize mayhem in this country,” he said.

Dodd said he has been a supporter of Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani.

But he predicted an erosion of support in the United States for Cristiani if he is unable to control “events and the people he has responsibility for controlling.”