DEMOCRAT SAYS SENATE WILL APPROVE SALVADOR AID

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• Publication Date: March 29, 1984
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ARTICLE AP ED NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE, /O 29 March 1984
ernocrat Says Senate WillApproveSalva r I
WASHINGTON, March 28 (AP) - A
Democratic leader said today that the
Senate would approve a compromise
$61.7 million military aid package for
El Salvador. Meantime, Secretary of
State George P. Shultz said he would
resist any move to cut off the aid if the
Government now being chosen is over.
thrown in a military coup.
Senator Daniel K. Inouye, of Hawaii,
sponsor of the compromise aid meas-
ure, told reporters as the Senate began
debate on the proposal, "It's going to
pass." Senator Inouye is chairman of a
Democratic task force on Central
America and senior Democrat on the
inappropri ate to seem to be predicting
that possibility," Mr., Shultz said. "The
military in El Salvador has gone to
great lengths to depoliticize them-
selves. I don't see any evidence of Any-
thing to the contrary."
appropriations subcommittee that han- Republica n of Arizona, the chairman of
dies foreign spending: ttte Senate me
___ g~rsce omm thee, to
Senator Inouye also said Senator Ed. say whether, the rightist Salvadoran.
ward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massa- 'presidential candidate Roberto d'Au.
chusetts, had indicated in a meeting of >iuisson, was connect ne~T- any aay
the task force that he planned to offer wi _d a h goads blamed for t>o tical
an amendment. to provide only enough murders in El Salvador
money to last through May, withhold- "I could not do that in open session,"
ing further installments until after a Senator Goldwater said. ' `It would re-
runoff election when the makeup of the - s ---- .quire --as- t ts ession of the Senate.?
new Government is known. Senator Kenn adreplied.
the an-
Secretary Shultz, testi
tying before sorer was `no;, it seems to me It would
the Senate Appropriations subcommit- not be very difficult to make that com-
tee that oversees the State Department rent."
budget, was asked by Senator Dale 7Meanwhile, Representative Clarence
Bumpers, Democrat of Arkansas, if he Long, Democrat of. Mar.rland, chair-
would support an.amendment to cut off man of the House Approl;:nations sub.
aid in the event of a coup. committee on foreign operations, said
"No, sir," Mr. Shultz said. he was concerned that the United
y
ear, The violations of internationally recognized
Salvador in the current fiscal yapproved
Appropriations Committee human rights.
$93 million in aid by a close vote earlier
this month, but the Reagan Adminis-
tration compromised on the lower fig-
ure after Senate Democrats threatened
to delay action.
Congress has already approved $64.8
million in military aid for El Salvador
in this fiscal year, but ordered that $20
million of it could not be spent until
there is a trial and verdict in the case of
four American churchwomen mur-
dered in El Salvador in December 1980.
As the debate be
an, Senator Ken- 1
ne as to enator arty dw`ater,
Senator Bumpers said he had heard
speculation about a possible coup if the
centrist presidential candidate, Jose
Napole6n Duarte, who led in the first
round of voting conducted Sunday, is
elected in a runoff expected to be held
inMay.
The Senate is expected to vote this
week on a bill that would.provide $61.7
million in emergency militar
aid t EI
States needs the Salvadoran Govern.
ment "more than they need us, and we
are going to continue to give them arms
no matter how atrocious their behavior
Mr. Long spoke at a subcommittee
hearing at which Aryeh Neier, chair.
man of the Americas Watch Commit.
tee, a human rights organization
testi
,
-
fied that a recent campaign led by the
American Embassy in San Salvador
had reduced the number of killings and
disappearances of civilian noncombat.
ants by death squads to about a dozen a
week. Nevertheless, Mr. Neler said,
Americas Watch opposes "any and all
military assistance" to El Salvador b,,
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