Article: Terror network. (United States aid to El Salvador) (editorial)

Since last November's F.M.L.N. offensive and the murder by Salvadoran soldiers of six Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter, the long-frozen impasse over U.S. aid to El Salvador has begun to crack. On February 8 Gen. Maxwell Thurman, head of the U.S. Southern Command, told Congress that the rebels could never be defeated on the battlefield; the same day, Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd introduced a bill that would make future military aid conditional on U.N.mediated peace talks. Together, these two developments have vindicated the thinking behind the November offensive. As the rebels sought to prove, only a negotiated settlement can end the war.

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