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...Salvador proposed that the country's government should "consider options to end the massacre," which was interpreted to mean talking with the rebel leaders. Earlier, an American envoy had flown to Havana for talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro, suggesting to some that the two major Caribbean Basin antagonists might agree to work directly on easing tensions in the region. But beneath these surface signs of flexibility, there remained serious doubts within the Reagan Administration about what might emerge from all these talks about talks, since so much of the interchange between the parties involved depended on the outcome...
...Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...
...been based on the hope that the campaign would solidify power for the centrist regime led by President José Napoleon Duarte. Administration officials said that if the far right wins in El Salvador next week the President's aid plan for El Salvador, part of the Caribbean Basin package sent to Congress last week, would be reviewed. "Whatever new government is established," said one official, "it must be committed to the reforms launched by Duarte under the Carter Administration...
...source of his country's problems. This is actually an invasion of international Communism. El Salvador is not the principal objective. The objective is Central America and the Caribbean basin, and eventually the U.S. By 1969 the Communists had established violent groups to damage the economy in our region. The most violent attacks-kidnapings, terrorism-had great backing from the mistaken political thought of Mr. Jimmy Carter [a reference to Carter's tolerance for the Sandinista-led revolution in Nicaragua]. That is why Nicaragua is a pro-Soviet government today. Members of the U.S. Department of State, Venezuela...
...often obscured by its simplistic and angry bombast about an East-West encounter in Central America, the Reagan Administration already does have in place the framework for an effective policy that takes into account the North-South problems of dealing with unstable and economically troubled nations. The Caribbean Basin Initiative of economic aid for the Central American region was enlightened and constructive, and was so hailed by leaders in the region...