The World - News from Jan. 31, 1985

Americas Watch, a U.S. human rights group, said that the torture and killing of Salvadoran civilians by death squads and government security forces have been sharply reduced but that indiscriminate army attacks on villages--in which civilians are the primary victims--appear to have increased. Saying that the situation in El Salvador remains a “mixed picture,” Aryeh Neier, vice chairman of the group, declared, “No headway has been made whatsoever in stopping indiscriminate attacks by the armed forces, which victimize millions of civilians.”