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FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM SATURDAY JANUARY 22 1983 The American Civil Liberties Union in a I 15-page report denounced human rights abuses in El Salvador as (tworse than ever presents ij BELLA DAVIDOVICH pianist i deserves to be beard in the great capitals of the world" HAROLD SCHONBERG NY TIMES PROGRAM Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No 2 in minor Prokofiev Symphony No 5 B-flat major Saturday Jan 22 at 8 pm and Sunday Jan 23 at 3 pm 1 I By BARBARA REHM New York Daily New WASHINGTON Despite new criticism of human rights abuses the Reagan administration certified Friday that El Salvador is curbing violations and economic and political reforms to deservecontinued US military aid is nonetheless said Thomas 0 Enders assistant secretary of state for inier-Americart affairs human rights- abuses continue and that the further development of democracy and the pr tection of human rights are not to be taken for grarited (in El Salvador)" The obstacles of a bitter civil have not prevented the Salvadoran government from making progress Enders said Political violence continued to diminish efforts to control the abuses of the armed forces showed progress land reform continued and the democratic process begun In the March 1982 elections 'also continued he said Enders underscored gravity of El problems" noting to El Salvador to investigate the dis-' appearances of health workers and reported abuses of civilians said upon their return Friday that the Salvadoran government destroying its own people with the arms we are sending them" Dr John Stanbury a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology termed as continued military aid to El Salvador "The living conditions I saw (in El Salvador) are subhuman" Stanbury said have been in and out of Latin America and Africa for 30 years I have never seen people irt such ap- palling physical condition except in hospitals in chronic famine areas" -The team examined about 80 children at a refugee camp and said they were suffering from severe malnutrition skin diseases and running sores Many children they said were toosick tocome out of the hovels where they were living In visits to the more than 600 prisoners of the Mariona prison and the Ila Pango women's jail the team found that single oneof these prisoners had been that the tiny Central American country faces organized and externally supported guerrilla war that has provoked an acute decline At stake in the certification which by law must be presented to Congress every 180 days is $25 mil-lionin military aid According to tjie State Department there are 37 US military advisers in El Salvador The certification comes at a time when large numbers of civilians continue to be killed in Salvador the US-backed armed forces are fractured the main phase of the land-distribution program is likely to end March 3 and the trial of soldiers accused in the murders of American citizens is mired in appeals The American Civil Liberties Un ion in a 115-page report denounced human rights abuses in El Salvador as than and charged that Salvadoran armed forces and paramilitary groups killed at least 5339 civilians lastryear 2339 of them in the last six months The US Embassy said 2063 persons died in political violence during the year Both iguresare substantially below similar figures for 1981 Since the civil war began three years ago an estimated 40000 Salvadorans have died policy and practice of political murder by the government of El Salvador remains the ACLU said president and the Department of State demonstrate contempt for US law by again certifying El Salvador" US health professionals invited Topline BEDDING SALE ALL STYLES ALL SIZES! 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