SHULTZ REPLACED LATIN AIDES AS PART OF A REAGAN PACT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 5, 1983
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NEW YORK TIMES
5 June 198
Shultz Replaced Latin Aides as Par
of a Reagan Pact
By BERNARD D. GWERTZMAN
Special to 'beim York Times
WASHINGTON, June 4? Secretary
of State George P. Shultz agreed to re-
place his two chief advisers on El Salva-
dor as part of an arrangement he
worked out with President Reagan 10
days ago to regain control of day-to-day
management of Central American poli-
cy, well-placed Reagan Administration
officials say.
The officials .added that the two,
Thomas 0. Enders, Assistant Secretary
of State for Inter-American Affairs, and
Deane R. Eiinton, the Ambassador to El
Salvador, were also dropped in an effort
to end a bitter fight over that policy that
had spread throughout the Administra-
tion.
In interviews in recent days, the offi-
cials said Mr. Enders and Mr. Hinton
were replaced atter a meeting between
Mr. Shultz and Mr. Reagan at the White
House. They said Mr. Shultz sought the
meeting after Mr. Enders complained
that the appointment by the White
House of Richard B. Stone as a special
envoy to Central America had raised
further questions over whether the
State Department was still in control of
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Dual Approach Reaffirmed
The main question, Mr. Enders re-
portedly said, was whether the Admin-
istration was committed to a dual ap-
proach of aiding El Salavdor militarily ,
while encouraging the start of a dia-
logue among the various countries and
factions involved or whether, looking
for a quick solution, it would place
much more emphasis on military suc-
cess.
According to aides to Mr. Shultz, the
President told him that he remained
committed to the dual approach pub-
licly stated in his speech on Central
America of April 27. The approach was
long favored by Mr. Enders and Mr.
Hinton, who have argued privately and
publicly that it will take considerable
time and patience to see any results in
El Salvador. But interviews with offi-
cials in various agencies indicated that
there are many who believe that a more
dramatic approach by the President is
needed to turn the tide. ?
According to a Shultz aide, Mr. En-
ders also acknowledged that his own
personality may have contributed to
feuds with White House, Defense De-
partment and Central Intelligence
Agency officials. One official noted that
Mr. Enders had said it might be time
for him to move to another post.
Mr. Shultz, in his filbnversation with
Mr. Reagan, came to the conclusion
that he had to "sacrifice" both Mr. En-
ders and Mr. Hinton, who for different
reasons had run afoul of the White
House, in order to re-establish the lines
of policy, a senior State Department of-
ficial said.
"The Secretary told the President,"
; an aide said, "that we havc to have a
clear policy. There are too many people
Involved. We have to have the manage-
ment of Central American policy run
i from the Assistant Secretaryto the Sec-
retary of Stake to the President."
vibe President agreed
thesis," the aide went on. "But with the
cheanaggerrdearEat involved the personnel the agreement
and Hinton."
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headed by Willi
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certain senior officials in theECid.Iers.A.
and in the Pentagon.
Much of the problem, officials from
all agencies agreed, _involved personal-
ity ' clashes. Mr. Enders, at six-foot-
eight, is an imposing and sometimes
dominating figure, physically and intel-
lectually. Close aides said he felt that
many other Reagan officials did not un-
derstand what was going on in Central
America and failed to realize that Con-
gress would not support .a major mili-
tary and economic commitment to El
Salvador, particularly one that could
lead to the involvement of American
forces or a major increase in the num-
ber of American advisers there.
As an example, aides cited the inch
dant of the recent white paper on Com-
munist subversion in Central America.
They said the C.I.A. produced the
paper many months ago with the idea
that it would be made public by the
State Department. State Department
officials said Mr. Enders and his staff
decided that not only did the paper pro-
vide no new information of consequence!
but that it was written in too tenden-
tious a manner
"Tom decided to just sit on it," one of-
ficial said. After several months, Wil-
liam J. Casey, director of Central Intel-
liegence, complained, as did Mr. Clark.
State Department Yields
A majordispute broke out two weeks
ago over the issue, with the State De-
partment finally giving in to the C.I.A.
and White House and making public a
revised version on May 27,. a few hours
before Mr. Shultz announced that Mr.
Enders was being replaced by Long-
borne A. Motley, the Ambassador to
Mr. Enders himself has declined to be
Interviewed since his transfer was an-
nounced.
The dispute over Mr. Stone was more
significant than the white paper, offi-
cials said. The idea of appointing a spe-
cial envoy had originated with Repre-
sentative Clarence D. Long, Democrat
of Maryland, who is chairman of a key
House AppropriatiOns subcommittee.
He made his approval of the Adminis-
tration's request to transfer military
aid earmarked for other countries to El
Salvador conditional on sending a spe-
cial negotiator there.
But when the White House decided to
name Mr. Stone as Ambassador at
Large for all of Central America, the
move was perceived by Mr. Enders ?
and eventually by Mr. Shultz?as an ef-
fort by the White House to circumvent
the State Department. Mr. Shultz has
now reached an understanding with the
White House, an aide said, that Mr.
Stone will report to him and that his ac-
tions will be monitored closely by the
department.
Mr. Enders's policy problems began
last year, his aides said, when he
backed Mr. Hinton's efforts to persuade
Salvadoran politicans not to allow the
right wing to take power after it did sur-
prisingly well in elections. He felt that a
government led by Robert d'Aubisson,
the rightist leader, would not obtain
enough Congressional backing in Wash-
ington.
This approach had the White House's
backing in 1982, but as the State Depart-
ment began to press for more democra-
tization in El Salvador, some criticism
began to be heard of Mr. Enders in con-
servative publications, his aides said.
And when Mr. Hinton gave an address,
supported by Mr. Enders, attacking the
'?far-right "death squids" in El Salva-
dor, White House officials said they had
not cleared the speech. This, officials
said, undercut Mr. Hinton's efforts in El
Salavdor and caused severe friction be-
tween Mr. Clark and Mr. Enders.
STAT
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