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...Alliance or the Middle East. Instead, he was faced with an ill-defined upheaval in his own pinstriped bailiwick at Foggy Bottom. Washington's professional diplomats were up in arms over the Reagan Administration's surprise decision two weeks ago to replace Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders, 51, and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane R. Hinton, 60, as the key players in the nation's most contentious foreign policy game, how to deal with troublesome Central America...
...unusually critical speech, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin recently warned journalists of the Inter-American Press Association of the dangers of a one-sided presentation of the issues in Central America. Excerpts...
Much of the responsibility for the current confusion rests with the Administration. Shultz and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders have insisted that U.S. policy has not changed since 1981, when former Secretary of State Alexander Haig first cast the Salvadoran struggle as an East-West conflict. The chief elements of U.S. strategy have been to buttress the Salvadoran government with guns, money and American military advisers (who currently number around 37), while encouraging political and economic reforms as well as an improvement in El Salvador's doleful human rights record...
...Administration itself sometimes appears to be divided on Salvadoran policy, with hard-liners like Kirkpatrick and Clark pitted against more moderate policymakers at State. When Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, reportedly suggested that perhaps the time had come at least to explore the idea of holding talks with the guerrillas, the notion was quickly squelched...
...Washington, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders admitted that the F.M.L.N. occupation was a "significant psychological action." Not only had the guerrillas briefly occupied a major town, but they seemed to have underscored a growing incompetence on the part of the Salvadoran army. U.S. military advisers in El Salvador have repeatedly warned the country's Defense Minister, José Guillermo Garcia, to concentrate on defending economically vital Usulután, where they believe the Salvadoran conflict ultimately will be won or lost. Instead, Garcia had sent the cream of his 22,000-member army...