EL SALVADOR 37 Central America. The document came to be known as the "Dissect Paper". It is reproduced in Poelchau (cd.), op city and in International Press, December 15, 1980. 90 Armstrong and Shenk, NACLA Report, July-August 1930, p 29. 91 communist Interference in El Salvador", United States Department of State, .Special Report No 80, February 23, 1981. 92 Jeane Kirkpatrick, International. Herald Tribune, April 20, 1983. 93 Armstrong and Shenk, NACLA Report, July-August 1980, p 3; Armstrong and Wheaton, op city pp 6-7. 94 Both Garcia and Gutirrez had connections with El Salvador's telephone and telegraph company, ANTEL, itself closely linked to the US-based multinational corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT). Armstrong and Wheaton, op cit, p 7. 95 The split within the PDC was complete by May 1980, when the left wing and all those opposed to collaboration with the regime broke away to form a new party, the Popular Social Christian Movement (MPSC). This became a constituent of the newly formed FDR. 96 Janet Shenk, NACLA Report, May-June 1981, p 7. 97 Roy Prosterman and Mary Temple, "I.and Reform in El Salvador", AFL-CIO Free Trade Union News^ Vol 35, No 6, June 1980. 98 Simon and Stephens, op cit, pp 36-38, 62-70. 99 Ibid, pp 22-40; Raymond Bonner, "Salvador Land Programme Aids Few", New Tork Times, August 3, 1981. 100 New Tork Times, May 24, 1982. 101 NACLA interview with ISTA technician, San Salvador, June 2, 1980. Cited by Armstrong and Shenk, NACLA Report, July-August 1980, p 17. On March 17, Amnesty International called on the Salvadoran government to halt a campaign of murder and abduction of peasants, launched following the announcement of land reform, Amnesty International news release, New York, March 17, 1980. 102 Shafik Handal, quoted in Reissncr, op cit., p 33. 103 See, for example, chapter 11 of Frances Fitzgarald, Fire in the Lake', New York, Vintage Books, 1973. 104 Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former army major, founded the White Warriors' Union, twice attempted in 1980 to carry out a coap that would liave ousted Duarte, and is now known to have masterminded the assassination of Archbishop Romero. 105 Despite intensive lobbying by the Reagan administration, only a few of the 60 governments that received invitations from the Salvadoran regime agreed to send observers to the March 1982 elections. Of the Western Emopcan governments, only Britain participated. Other participants included Chile, Argentina, Haiti, Honduras and Uruguay. Even Venezuela failed to send observers. N^w Tork Times, February 23, 1982. Following the elections, the entire exercise was denounced by the Presidium of the Socialist International, incladin^ the leaders of several Western European governments. Washington Post April 3, 1932. 106 Janet Shenk NACLA Report, May-June 1981, p 3. 107 William E Colby, "El Salvador: Which Vietnam?" The Washington Post April 20, 1981. 108 Saigon regime report, cited by Noam Chomsky anil Edward S Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism^ Boston, South End Press, 1979, p 324. 109 Chomsky, ibid, p 326. 110 Within El Salvador, the Legal Aid Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador and the El Salvador Human Rights Commission have performed a courageous role in documenting the atlocitics. Outside the country, Amnesty