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...Texas meal, paid for by the Governor's political fund, was a home- cooked treat for the 419 volunteer Texas National Guardsmen participating in the Big Pine III war games. Invited by the Department of Defense, which frequently asks National Guard units to assist in maneuvers, the reservists flew down to play the bad guys in the second stage of the three-month-long joint operation. With 17 tanks and 17 armored personnel carriers, they staged a mock assault on a Honduran hilltop position, sweeping toward the encampment in a 4 1/2-mile-wide front while Honduran warplanes darted overhead...
...posed for pictures, gave speeches and signed autographs. He gave a cattle brand in the shape of Texas to Colonel Roy Kimerling, commander of the joint task force participating in the games. Surrounded by ten Army guards, White even inspected a municipal project, a new well dug by his Guardsmen...
...subtlety. The enemies of our enemies do not always qualify as friends with whom the U.S. can feel comfortable. Even those Nicaraguan contras who are genuinely committed to building a free society and a pluralistic political system are uneasy about their comrades-in-arms who were Somocista national guardsmen...
...Supreme Court dimmed hopes that at least one other man implicated in the crime will be tried. It threw out the case against Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrián, a Salvadoran army officer who was seen at the hotel that evening and allegedly ordered the two guardsmen to carry out the killings. The court's ruling was based in part on a witness's failure to identify López Sibrián in a police lineup after López Sibrián had been allowed to dye his red hair black and shave...
...covered the departments of San Miguel, Cabañas, Usulután and Chalatenango, was the first assault since a military shake-up sent two officers to posts overseas shortly before Duarte's inauguration. Another auspicious sign for Duarte came when a Salvadoran judge sentenced five former National Guardsmen to 30 years in prison for the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen. As a result, the U.S. Congress will release $19.4 million in military aid that it froze pending resolution of the case...