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...concerns, and its significance, reached beyond the stage. Founded at the dawn of the Depression, the Group was avidly though not dogmatically leftist; Co-Founder Harold Clurman said, "We are not going to be restricted by Marxism." Organized and run more or less collectively, the ensemble slowly splintered as members' careers led them elsewhere; it broke up entirely by 1941. Eventually, some of the founders were barely on speaking terms, and some of those feuds continue today...
Kissinger and company urge a stepped up campaign by the Salvadoran Army in order to defeat the leftist insurgents and end the country's three-year civil war. Although the group wisely rules out the use of any U.S. troops in El Salvador, it does call for a quadrupling of U.S. military aid in the next year to the order of $250 million, adding the important condition that aid be contingent on the Salvadoran Government's success on curbing the rightist death squads and securing basic human rights. Such a condition, unlike in the past, must be strictly adhered...
Just as the White House made ready to battle on Capitol Hill to wrest perhaps as much as $175 million in military funds for the Central American nation, disheartening news came of a daring guerrilla offensive. On two year-end raids, leftist insurgents not only captured and held El Salvador's fourth-largest military base for some eight hours but blew up the Cuscatlan suspension bridge, a span that had come to symbolize 20th century progress for Salvadorans...
Angry at its leftist tilt, the U.S. pulls...
...focus. The invasion of Grenada, Reagan claimed, prevented Marxists from turning that island into a Soviet-Cuban colony. Elsewhere in the region, however, no such quick or decisive victory for Administration policy seemed in sight. U.S. aid to the conservative government of El Salvador in its fight against a leftist insurrection, and to the contra rebels battling the Marxist-led government of Nicaragua, did little more than sustain grim guerrilla wars. Just as the U.S. did after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, the Soviet Union volubly denounced...