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...agenda item is the Comprehensive Programme of Disarmament. A Working Group of the Disarmament Commission, which was established by the U.N. in 1978, is working to complete this program. The Chairman is Ambassador Garcia Robles of Mexico, who recently told the General Assembly that the present concept is for a four-stage Program with a five-year duration for each stage...
...showing at the battle of Guazapa but at small encampments throughout the countryside. Typical is a rebel stronghold in the department of Usulután, 80 miles southeast of San Salvador. In February, the army had launched a campaign against the area, which Defense Minister General José Guillermo Garcia boasted would bring about "the final destruction of the guerrillas." But last week the rebels had solidly re-established themselves in their old surroundings...
...next day, in a news conference at the general staff headquarters, Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia replied to the inevitable questions: "Yes, there have been reports of some foreigners ... yes, black..." But in the end Garcia could not confirm that the Cuban existed. Perhaps the distinguished members of the press would be interested in a Nicaraguan prisoner-a commandante?Outside the room, ABC Producer Frank Manitzas performed a little skit, complete with Cuban accent: "Sure he was a Cuban. There he sat, with a big black cigar in his mouth, and said, 'Oye, chico-got a light...
...Congressmen descended on El Salvador to take then-own soundings. One of the most vociferous of the skeptics was Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who arrived with fellow Democrat Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island. After a private meeting with El Salvador's Defense Minister, General José Guillermo Garcia, Leahy emerged with Pell and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and complained that he "got along very badly" with the general, who had energetically demanded more U.S. military aid. For his part, Pell told Garcia that "Congress would not continue to authorize unlimited funds for El Salvador if there...
...exultant guerrillas quickly issued a communiqué claiming that they had destroyed 28 aircraft. A tight-lipped General José Guillermo Garcia, Defense Minister in the country's civilian-military government, gave figures that were much lower: "about eleven" aircraft and four of the helicopters that are so useful in fighting El Salvador's long-smoldering guerrilla war were destroyed. There was no doubt, however, that the insurgents had dealt the government a major setback. Said a U.S. military officer about the airport raid: "Disastrous...