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Clark's first job in the Administration was deputy to then Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who argued vociferously that the Soviet Union was going to "test" the U.S. in Central America by promoting leftist revolution. Haig went so far as to draw up contingency plans for blockading Cuba to prevent the shipment of Soviet arms from there to Nicaragua and to rebels in El Salvador. He was ordered by the White House to tone down the bellicose talk, and through most of 1982 the region got a relatively low policy priority. But last whiter Clark, by then transferred...
...policymakers agreed readily enough on the main elements of the assessment. The Salvadoran government was making some headway in a new offensive against the leftist guerrillas, but might not be able to maintain its momentum with no more U.S. aid than it is now getting. In Nicaragua, the contras had been unable to capture any towns, but they were attracting recruits faster than the CIA could arm and train them. An apparently worried Nicaraguan government had responded by calling in more outside help. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, some 1,200 Cuban military advisers had been spotted in Nicaragua...
...Administration's self-imposed limit of 55 American military advisers in El Salvador (actually, the number now is 47) and increasing the force to 125. Its argument is simply that 55, or 47, advisers are not enough to tram Salvadoran forces on the scale required to defeat the leftist guerrillas. The Pentagon also proposed that the advisers be allowed to accompany Salvadoran government forces in the field, which is prohibited now, though they still would not be allowed to join in actual combat. Asked about a larger force at his news conference, Reagan insisted that "no one has presented...
...never been easy to serve two masters, but that has not stopped France's Communist Party from trying. As junior members of the ruling leftist alliance, French Communists have dutifully supported Socialist President François Mitterrand. At the same time, they have remained as faithful as possible to the Soviet Union. But because Moscow is demanding that France's 98 nuclear weapons be counted in the U.S.-Soviet negotiations in Geneva on the limitation of nuclear weapons in Europe, France's Communists have found their loyalties increasingly divided...
...refused to be drawn further into the debate, noting only that he and Kohl had "breathed the fresh air; looked at the trees, the flowers and the sky; and talked a lot." But there was no getting around the fact that the missile disagreement was putting strains on the leftist coalition...