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From: jmg@sftig.UUCP (J.McGhee)
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Subject: Re: Death Squads
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 12:53:57 EST
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>   Recently (Feb. 13) two former El Salvadoran national guardsmen
> were found guilty of shooting two Americans. This provides further
> support for an important legal principle: that it should be illegal
> under any circumstances for a Death Squad to kill an American. I am
> enough of a liberal to support the extension of this principle even
> to Canadians, Australians, Japanese and Western Europeans.
>
> ucbvax!brahms!gsmith    Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
> ucbvax!weyl!gsmith      "When Ubizmo talks, people listen."


	I recently heard on one of the classical music radio stations
in New York (WNYC/WNCN/WQXR?) that officers of the Salvadorean military who
were found guilty of involvement in the slaying of four American women
missionaries were "punished" by being promoted and sent out of El Salvador
for foreign duty (possibly at Salvadorean Embassies).
	Regarding Gene Smith's "liberal" principles stated above, I think
he has defined just the right mind-set for a career officer at the State
Department :-).

					J. M. McGhee