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...might want to establish a Cuban connection was particularly intriguing. Washington has long insisted that Havana's efforts to export its revolution, with the help of its Nicaraguan ally, is a prime cause of the four-year-old Salvadoran civil war. In early March, Secretary of State Alexander Haig secretly dispatched his favorite troubleshooter, General Vernon Walters, to Havana to press this point. Castro reportedly told Walters, a former deputy director of the CIA, that while Cuba supports the Salvadoran leftists, it is not currently supplying them with arms. Castro expressed his readiness to address these and other issues...
Walters' mission was not the first such overture. Haig had had a private meeting with Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodríguez last November in Mexico City. From the U.S. perspective, the discussions have not gone as well as they might have, since the Cubans refuse to address the problem of Havana's adventurism in Latin America and Africa. Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders told a House Appropriations subcommittee last week: "We have tried to talk with Cuba in the past, and it would be wrong to rule out trying again. But the record is daunting...
...show a certain flexibility." Lest Hinton's words be seen as a sign of weakness or a lack of faith in the government, U.S. officials stressed that any talks would focus not on giving power to the rebels but merely bringing them back into the electoral process. Said Haig: "We have never rejected a negotiated solution. But we mean negotiations by all parties on participation in the democratic process. We reject negotiations that constitute a distribution of national power over the heads of the people of El Salvador...
...Since last fall, Administration officials have accused the Soviet Union and its allies of violating the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention-both treaties have been signed by Moscow-by engaging in chemical warfare. "With every passing day," charged Secretary of State Alexander Haig in February, "we get more incontrovertible evidence of the use of mycotoxins [fungal poisons] in Afghanistan, Laos and Kampuchea [Cambodia] . . . There is no question in our minds that such weapons have been and are continuing to be used...
Twice of late the State Department has been embarrassed by its own for-example pleading. Secretary of State Al Haig waved a photo spread from the French Figaro of the "most atrocious genocidal actions" in Nicaragua, which proved to be an old picture of something else. State then proudly produced a live Nicaraguan guerrilla captured in El Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America...