4 Page 2-Sunday, December 7, 1980-The Michigah Daily EXTREME RIGHT WANTS ISOLATED GOVERNMENT Guns rule in El Salvador IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press.International reports An AP News Analysis MEXICO CITY-El Salvador's ex- treme right is mounting an increasingly bloody campaign of outrages that ap- pear intended to isolate the troubled government from its backers. The right is challenging the left as the main threat to the ruling junta. The assassinations of six Salvador leftist leaders and three American nuns and a lay social worker in the past 10 days focused world attention on the tiny Central American republic, where political killings are routine and where, by the government's own admission, "the law of the gun" rules. THE UNITED States, which has backed the civilian-military junta as the best alternative to the extreme right or left, announced suspension of economic and military aid to El Salvador Friday and sent a presidential commission to investigate possible military complicity in the killings of the nuns and social worker. Mexico, which has a rising role as a Latin American leader, recalled its ambassador after a Mexican newsman was killed there earlier this year. Relations have remained chilly. Many other nations as well have closed their embassies in San Salvador, the Salvadoran capital, apparently feeling that the safety of their diplomats could not be guaranteed. NO ONE HAS claimed responsibility for killing the nuns. But the murders follow the pattern of rightist hit squads that work in El Salvador at will. The freedom with which they operate has long been a con- cern of the United States. At the funeral of the nuns Friday,. U.S. Ambassador Robert White said "Now the time has come to act and we are going to act." EL SALVADOR'S- left has shifted away from being a movement of the masses toward becoming a hard-line but smaller guerrilla force. Despite its efforts, leftists could muster only about 2,000 mourners when the leftist leaders were buried last Wednesday. Threats of leftist "final offensives" have fizzled repeatedly, and the six lef- tist assassinations by rightists on Nov. 27 virtually wiped out their leadership. Rightists claimed responsibility for the killing of the six and are generally. believed to be behind the killing bf the four American women. CORRECTLY OR incorrectly, the junta is still aligned with the right in the eyes of many. Recently, there has been talk of reorienting the government toward, the center-left, which would presumably require an alliance with moderate-leftist opposition. The furor caused by the recent mur- ders likely will further isolate the left, making such a change more difficult, if not impossible. Just who makes up and controls the extreme right is less clear, although junta member Jose Napoleon Duarte says elements. of Salvador's military are probably involved. "BUT WHO ARE they? Where are they?" he said in a recent interview. Whoever they are and whoever gives them orders, they threaten to knock out the main support of the junta with the killings, a threat not equaled so far by the demonstrated strength of the leftist guerrilla movement in El Salvador. The left claims outright government complicity in the killings, which the government denies. However, the military has been tightly allied with the tiny but powerful upper class in El Salvador since the 1930s. That did not change when the junta came to power after a military coup' Oct. 15, 1979, ousting President Gen. Carlos Humberto Romero. The people who run the day-to-day operations of the military are basically the same as before the coup. While the military government as such is gone, its legacy remains. University of Michigan Applicants to the Physical Therapy Curriculum for Fall Term 1981 This is a reminder that supplementary applications for the Physical Therapy Curriculum must be com- plete and filed by January 15, 1981. Pre-Physical Therapy students who have attained Sophomore status or above may pick up.applications at: Undergraduate Admissions Office 1220 S.A.B. (Behind LSA Building) 8:30-12:00 and 1:00-4:30 After Dec. 1.51980 U.S. investigators land in El Salvador ".5' Sundays you can get a spe- P cial spaghetti dinner in- cluding a garden salad & garlic bread for only $2.95. thlrg n f (Continued from Page 1) the magistrate said they believed gun- men mistook him for another justice who helped identify the women and signed burial orders. The U.S. group is headed by William Rogers, a former assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs 'with close ties to the incoming Republican administration. Another member is Assistant Secretary of State William Bowdler, a former ambassador to El Salvador. THE STATE Department announced the mission Friday night, saying it had been approved by the Salvadoran government and would report to President Carter and aides to President-elect Ronald.Reagan this week. The announcement came hours after the State Department said it was ti 0a ' c i r c t v c c a r r f { r c t ° T k s c ,VL7 1140 SOUTH UNIVERSITY 668-8411 Student Newspaper at The University of Michigan r--------- WRITE YOUR AD HERE! 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Bombings were reported at the local headquarters of the 3-M Corp., a bank, and a fried chicken restaurant. Gunfire was heard across the city. There were no im- mediate reports of casualties., THE U.S. delegation is expected to meet with at least some Salvadoran of- ficials, and possibly with Roman Catholic Church sources who say they have indirect evidence that the' Salvador military.was responsible for the killings. "Nor the time has come to act and we are going to act," U.S. Ambassador Robert White said at a funeral for the nuns Friday. Local peasants found the bullet-ridden bodies Wednesday southeast of this capital city and authorities said the women were mur- dered the day before. No one has claimed responsibility. Town fathers baid road for Amish BERNE, Ind. (AP) - The 1,500 Amish who shop in this small northeast Indiana town no longer need worry about driving their horse-drawn buggies along busy U.S. 27. Local mer- chants are building a road for them. Most stores front U.S. 27 in this town of 3,000 residents, and the Amish had to compete with tractor-trailer rigs and cars to do their shopping, as there was no back street they could use to reach the stores. NOW, THE Amish - whose religious beliefs call for them to shun modern technology - have a half-mile section of narrow, gravel roadway built especially for carts and buggies. "It was built to take the elderly Amish with slow horses off the road," the Rev. Curtis Bedsworth, a retired Mennonite minister, said Thursday. "The horses used to go up in the air when they met the intersection." "SOME CAME to me and asked if we could get some kind of road there," Bedsworth said. The retired minister approached brothers Sam and Charles Habegger, ho have eight stores along the stretch where the Amish shop. The idea had benefits for the Habeggers, who already owned the land where the road was to be built. They volunteered to handle the construction. Portugal mourns prime minister LISBON, Portugal-Thousands mourned yesterday the death of Prime Minister Francisco Sa Carneiro, whose death in a plane crash last week thrust the country into political uncertainty. This week's presidential elec- tions will go on as scheduled, despite five days of official mourning for Sa Carneiro. Sa Carneiro died en route to a campaign rally for Gen. Antonio Soares Carneiro, the candidate of the prime minister's party. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. Minimum wage to be $3.35 - WASHINGTON-Some 5.6 million American workers will get a pay in- crease of 25 cents an hour Jan. 1. But future minimum wage increases are clouded by the election of Ronald Reagan and a more consevative Congress. The hourly minimum wage will rise from $3.10 to $3.35 New Year's Day, marking the final installment in a series of increases enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Carter in 1977. Based on a 40-hour work week, the'raise means a worker's weekly salary will rise from $124 to $134. The law requires that workers must be paid at time-and-a-half rates for hours in excess of 40 a week. During the election campaign, Reagan talked often of the nation's unem- ployment prollem, arguing that the minimum wage was so high that it was causing undue hardships for young people entering the labor market. He even advocated elimination of the minimum wage at one point. Since then,- Reagan has backed away from that position, advocating instead the enac- tment of legislation that would provide a lower minimum wage for those 16- 19. Congress still working WASHINGTON-Although most members of Congress had thought they would be home on their Christmas recess by now, they are still busy lining up support in preparation for a showdown on two civil rights issues early this week. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd yesterday said "the time is now" for passage of a 'housing bill, called by supporters the most important civil i rights legislation in a decade. Negotiators from both the House and Senate are trying, meanwhile, to work out a q'mpromise on legislation containing language prohibiting the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered school busing. On the housing bill, Byrd said if he does not get the 60 votes needed Tuesday to end debate on the issue he will withdraw the bill. Republican con- servatives agreed to stop a five-day filibuster on the housing bill last week in exchange for the test vote next Tuesday. Meanwhile, Congress is still awaiting a promised veto by President Carter of an appropriations measure that contains language prohibiting the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing to desegregate public schools. The president reportedly was persuaded by some members of Congress to hold off on the veto at least until Tuesday so that a compromise might be worked out. Leaders of both the House and Senate would prefer to avoid a vote on the controversial busing issue. Detroit officials ponder plans of Ann Arbor developer DETROIT-Detroit officials were considering a $75 million proposal from an Ann Arbor developer to reopen the long-closed downtown Heritage Hotal as a combination retail-hotel-condominuim complex. Developer Richard Berger said his plan, submitted to city officials last week, calls for conversion of the first three floor of the 20-story building into a retail shopping area of cafes, boutiques and other speciality shops. Floors four through 11 would be transformed into a 300-room deluxe hotel, he said, while the remaining nine stories would be converted into con- dominium units selling for $150,000 to $170,000. 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