AGNION "One Big Property Party"

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this rubric that the Phoenix Program of Labor Development and praised by Approximately 50,000 villagers, stu- by the AFL-CIO. The program has been The basic rationale presented by "radicals" for a Dump-Reagan movement is that any Democrat will be less bellicose, and that the redistribution of the wealth in favor of the rich will be slowed, if not reversed, by almost any Democrat.

So compelling is this expectation that virtually every current within the antiwar movement and the nominal left can be expected, as the summer wears on, to join in the four-year lemming-like rush into the embrace of the Democratic Party variant of what G. William Domhoff aptly labeled the "One Big Property Party." (Fat Cats and Democrats, 1972)

It is a case of what the Jesuits call insensible ignorance. In 1898 William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic opponent of William McKinley, concluded his losing opposition campaign by serving as an officer in the invasion of Cuba. Not much has changed since.

Allan Nairn documents in the May issue of the Progressive, that the death squads of El Salvador, ritually decried by the Democratic Party and denounced the State Department, the Agency for International Development, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Six administrations administered EI Salvador's death squads over a period of 20 years.

It should be noted that the extermination program aimed at peasant, trade Police, such intelligence sharing by U.S. agencies continues to this day." (ibid)

Under the Carter administration, the U.S. provided Roberto d'Aubuisson with the intelligence files he used in his 1980 telecast to finger trade unionists, Christian Democrats, and clergy as "guerrilla collaborators." Those named were assassinated shortly thereafter, or fled the country.

These U.S.-prepared television broadcasts inaugurated d'Aubuisson's Arena Party. The same U.S. officials "instructed Salvadoran intelligence operatives in the use of investigative techniques. " (ibid)

These included "instructions in methods of physical and psychological torture." (ibid) Roberto Santzaney, who directed ANSESAL, disclosed that the death squads were the prime instrument of U.S. policy in El Salvador, organized and expanded under successive Democratic administrations. "Reform" in Vietnam and El Salvador In Vietnam, under John F. Kennedy and Robert McNamara (who advises Mondale), the Land to the Tiller program was set up under Roy Prosterman. This involved the herding of peasants into strategic hamlets, and it was under William Colby unfolded.

dents, and priests were murdered in Vietnam. Prosterman became the ==------ma =-.adviser to the Duarte Government in EI Salvador, and he set up a "land reform" program under the exact same name used in Vietnam— "Land to the Tiller."

Now professor at the University of Washington, Prosterman is under contract to the Land Council of El Salvador. Peasant leaders who have surfaced in response to the land offered under this program have been murdered by Orden. The program has been sponsored by the American Institute for Free Lane Kirkland in literature distributed (continued on page A2)

WHEN "FRIENDS oF LABOR VOTE TO FAVOR - WAGE CONTROLS OIL ENEMIES ???

Howard Petrick