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...battlefields, however, Salvadoran officers fighting the guerrillas say they would welcome new military equipment, especially sophisticated communications gear and helicopters. The U.S. justifies the dispatch of instructors as necessary to help the Salvadorans make good use of the new equipment. Finally, Administration officials concede, the advisers comprise a "highly visible" sign of the Reagan Administration's determination to fight Communist "indirect armed aggression...
...most Congressmen appear willing to let Reagan have his way, and no serious attempt is expected to block the dispatch of the advisers...
...helicopters-and the sending of U.S. military advisers to El Salvador. Six Navy training and maintenance advisers have already been ordered there. In an obvious attempt to test public opinion, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker remarked after a meeting with Reagan: "It is entirely appropriate for this country to dispatch noncombat advisers in small numbers-50, 100, 150-to tell these people how to defend themselves...
...Congressmen are co-sponsoring a bill to cut off all military aid to El Salvador, which now gets $10 million a year. But Congress, still under the spell of Reagan's landslide election victory, will probably approve aid in the end and not interfere with the dispatch of advisers, if the Administration finally decides on that step...
...Salvadorean death machine. The New York Times reported two days ago that Reagan is committed to sending the Salvadorean regime another $225 million in economic aid, and another $25 million worth of military equipment--a gift package of helicopters, "small arms," radar systems, trucks and jeeps. Reagan will also dispatch an extra 34 military advisers from the Pentagon to join the 25 "training experts" already there. If you think the Salvadorean people feel the heat of American military operations now, try to imagine what happens if one of our military advisers get shot. With cowboy Reagan in the White House...