The reporter who got it right
Jonathan Steele, 4 April 1985
Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador
by Raymond Bonner.
Hamish Hamilton, 408 pp., £13.95, February 1985,9780241113929 Show More
by Raymond Bonner.
Hamish Hamilton, 408 pp., £13.95, February 1985,
“... of Western journalists in San Salvador ‘scurried across town to the Presidential Palace’, as Raymond Bonner puts it in this important book. Alerted that the United States Ambassador, Robert White, would make a significant statement, they crowded round the entrance. ‘I believe reports that a group of approximately a hundred men landed from ... ”