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...trampoline workouts allow Walker to guide team members step by step through each new dive and stop them periodically to demonstrate proper form. The intricate system of pulleys, weights and belts makes this the safest way to instruct divers before they attempt actual execution from the boards...
Those 19 trainers were joined in El Salvador last week by a six-man naval training team that will help repair engines and radar equipment on Salvadoran patrol boats. The Reagan Administration is also sending four five-man training teams within the next few weeks to instruct Salvadoran troops in such subjects as intelligence, combat techniques and the use and maintenance of helicopters...
...advisers would be designated as "mobile training teams" and would instruct Salvadoran soldiers on how to handle weapons. Unlike the advisers sent to Viet Nam in the early 1960s, they would not go into combat alongside the Salvadorans, but they could become targets for guerrilla fire. In any case, the very word adviser triggers memories of how the U.S. first got involved in Viet Nam, as Reagan recognized. Asked at his press conference whether aid to El Salvador might plunge the U.S. into a situation from which it could not extricate itself, the President replied, "I know that this...
Meanwhile, TIME has learned that Washington is debating whether to send Army mobile training teams to El Salvador. The teams, composed of half a dozen soldiers, are typically sent to foreign countries to instruct infantry units in such subjects as weaponry and reconnaissance tactics. Team members are not combat advisers, and congressional approval is not required to send them to El Salvador. Nevertheless, the proposal is generating controversy in both Washington and San Salvador. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told the State Department last week that he could not go along with the plan. Salvadoran government officials fear that if they...
...Reagans' turn to take command of the present and in their time write the history that will instruct those who follow...