38 SOCIAL SCIENTIST International, the Americas Watch Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union are among the organisations which have published reports on the repression. 111 JThe attitude of the Reagan administration towards the killings was to alienate significant sections of Church opinion within the US. In March 1981, for example, Secreta-iy of State Haig, testifying before a House committee, in effect, provided a justification for the murders. He suggested that tbe churchwomen had attempted to run a roadblock, in the course of which there had been "an exchange of fire". Kef. Anthony Lewis, "Have you no sense of decency. Sir?" New York Times, March 29, 1981. 112 International Herald Tribune, April 16-17. 1983. 113 All the headlines are from The Washington Post, January 27, 1982; March 1, 1982, April 8, 1981, February 1, 1982. 114 The Washington Post, January 27, 1982. 115 Bourgois interviewed by Colman McCarthy, The Washington Post, January 17, 1982. 116 Ibid. 117 Vicente Navarro, "Genocide in El Salvador", Monthly Review, Vol 32, No 11, April 1981, p7. 118 Interview with FMLN Commander Alejandro Motenegro, International Press, March 16, 1981, p 238. 119 From "No More Vietnams" by Fred Small. This song is available on record from the Boston Mobilisation for Survival, 13 Sellers Street, Cambridge, Mass 02139. Another record popular in the US is one of the revolutionary songs from El Salvador. The album is entitled "El Salvador: Its Song, Struggle, Victory, Awakening!" and it is produced by Penon Records Inc., New York. 120 See William Pfaff, "Central America: The Opinion Factor", International Herald Tribune, April 30, 1983. 121 New York Times, March 25, 1981. 123 New York Times, March 21, 1982. 123 This poll was concucted by The Los Angeles Times on April 12, 1983, and was reported in \ he Internatinal Herald Tribune, April 28, 1983. 124 State Department Paper, quoted in the International Herald Tribune, April 18, 1983. 125 This is reportedly the assessment of General Frederick F Woerner, recognised as a leading authority on Latin America within the US military. A top secret report prepare.d by General Woerner in 1981 was recently given exposure in the New York Times, April 22. 1983.