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Savimbi's 40,000 UNITA fighters, backed by an estimated 20,000 South African troops stationed across the border in the South African-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia, have extended their operations to within 40 miles of Luanda. In addition to their military successes, the rebels scored a diplomatic triumph earlier this year when President Reagan welcomed Savimbi to Washington and promised him $15 million for new equipment...
...logistics of such a sweeping interdiction are indeed daunting. Some 160,000 ships, boats and pleasure craft enter U.S. harbors, bays and inlets annually. There are about 88,000 border crossings by aircraft every year. "To honor the House directives," said Weinberger, "the Pentagon would have to find some way of enforcing a 4,000-mile naval blockade...
...presence of the contras on Honduran soil violates the principle of self-determination enshrined in the country's constitution. Honduran officials are therefore wont to deny the guerrillas' presence in one breath and, in the next, to explain that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras...
...shadow of that escalation falls longest in the farming areas near the contras' southern training camps. Already, as many as 20,000 peasants have been driven from their homes by the increased cross-border shelling, and many of them are now committed to their own kind of limbo -- living in one-room shacks, unsettled by the fighting yet hardly supported by the government. All around are further casualties of war. In the sunbaked border town of Danli, the local coffee-growers' association estimates that its members have lost $15 million in four years. The farm owners have seen their land...
Indeed, the majority of Hondurans respond to their liminal position with a paradoxical longing: that the contras be replaced by U.S. troops, and the indecisive border skirmishing by a full-scale U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. As it is, Washington currently has only 750 troops on Honduran soil in a constantly fluctuating rotation that sometimes involves as many as 5,800. "The only way to get rid of the Sandinistas," says Conchita Canales, a Nicaraguan exile now working as a cook in the Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that...