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...Salvadoran army is running low on ammunition to stave off Communist guerrillas who might try to disrupt the nation's runoff presidential election scheduled for May 6. At week's end Reagan extended $32 million of emergency help to El Salvador under standing authority conferred by the Arms Export Control Act. If Congress votes no new money for the contras, however, U.S. funding for them will run out in a matter of weeks and their guerrilla war will have to be drastically scaled down. The White House would consider that equivalent to notifying Nicaragua that it could serve...
...Shultz-Weinberger-Casey-McFarlane statement gave a strong hint of Ronald Reagan's probable response. "The real issues," it said, "are whether we in the United States want to stand by and let a Communist government in Nicaragua export violence and terrorism in this hemisphere...
...Nicaragua to the Communist-led rebels in El Salvador. Hit-and-run raids by the contras could not accomplish that, however, and so, by April 1982, the goal of U.S. backing for the contras was redefined. It became to "harass" the Sandinistas so greatly that they would find the export of Marxist revolution too painful to continue and therefore would give...
Another option is simply to walk away, adopt a live-and-let-live policy, and trust the Nicaraguans to stop trying to export their revolution. It is the Administration's view that this is totally unrealistic, no matter how conciliatory the Sandinistas' rhetoric has become...
Meanwhile, the government has been more zealously limiting travel by foreign scholars, mostly from the Soviet Union and China, and the Commerce Department recently initiated "Operation Exodus," which is aimed at checking the export of high technology information...