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Article: U.S. CAUTIOUS TOWARD VICTOR.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 21, 1989
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Byline: Washington Post
Bush administration officials said Monday that they will try to work with El Salvador's newly elected government despite the winning party's historic ties to right- wing death squads, but added that they will be watching the new regime's performance on human rights closely.
"We support the democratic process, and we are prepared to support the person who emerges from that democratic process," State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said. But he added in reference to the capture of power by Alfredo Cristiani's rightist National Republican Alliance (Arena):
"Our relationship with the new government will depend on its ...