EL SALVADOR
For Salvadoran President José Napoleon Duarte, the trip was both a diplomatic triumph and a personal vindication. Making his first tour of Western Europe since his victory in the May 6 elections, Duarte was greeted warmly in West Germany last week, met with cordiality in Paris, and invited to visit Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Ireland. That marked a decided change in attitude by the West Europeans, who have long shunned El Salvador as a chronic human rights violator. So bad were relations that in 1979 West Germany suspended aid to El Salvador, and in 1980 the European Community cut...
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