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Duarte, rebels
hold peace talks
LA PALMA, El Salvador—
Government and rebel leaders
sat down in a country church
Monday to talk about
ending El Salvador’s war, a
historic first meeting after five
years of blood and bitterness.
The initial session in this
isolated mountain town near
the Honduran border produced
no apparent breakthroughs.
Pres. Jose Napoleon Duarte call
ed on the leftist guerrillas to
take part in Salvadoran elec
tions. The rebels called for
social reforms and war-crimes
trials.
But the president said
beforehand, “I’m not here to get
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anything today. I’m here to
open doors.”
An estimated 20,000
Salvadoran workers and
peasants thronging the church
plaza and surrounding streets
knew it was an important mo
ment in their country’s tortured
history. They cheered an
nouncements by the two sides
and waved white flags and ban
ners declaring, “Paz y
Democracia” — Peace and
democracy.
In the United States, Pres.
Reagan called the La Palma
talks a “momentous event for
peace in Central America.”
Although both sides had ex
pressed concern about security
surrounding the talks, the
meeting took place without
incident.
Duarte made his surprise offer
for peace talks in a speech to the
U.N. General Assembly in New
York on Oct. 8. The leaders of
the rebel groups — the Farabun
do Marti National Liberation
Front (FMLN) guerrillas and
their political arm, the
Democratic Revolutionary Front
(FDR) — quickly accepted, say
ing Duarte’s invitation was a
response to suggestions they
made through Roman Catholic
Church intermediaries.
An estimated 59,000 people
have been killed in El Salvador
in the past five years as the lef
tist guerrillas struggled against
U.S.-supported governments
moving slowly from rightist
military domination to
democratic civilian control.
Most of the dead were civilians
killed by right-wing death
squads.
An hour after the closed-door
talks began in this town 50
miles north of San Salvador, the
capital, Duarte’s seven pages of
opening proposals were outlin
ed by government spokesmen
on national television and by
loudspeaker to the La Palma
crowd.
The president offered a
blanket amnesty to the guer
rillas if they accept the
“democratic process,” said he
would propose legislative
guarantees of the rebels’ right to
political association and safety
from army reprisals, and pro
posed a joint commission of six
members from each side to plan
further negotiations.
Duarte stopped short of call
ing for a cease-fire, and ap
parently offered the guerrillas
no protection from
underground right-wing death
squads that have been blamed
for thousands of political
murders over the past five
years.
The rebels then responded by
circulating a document in La
Palma containing their
demands:
Cessation of military opera
tions "against the civilian
population”; general wage in
creases for workers and
peasants; the right to "life,
dignity, health and education
for all Salvadorans”; release of
rebel prisoners and an accoun
ting of the missing, and justice
for "criminals of war.”
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