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Though the group spent a week in both EI Salvador and its Nicaragua, McGinn said that he and his colleagues will focus on EI Salvador and what he termed the lack of improvement of human rights In EI Salvador during the past six months. According to McGinn's group, conditions in the war-torn country have deterionated since last January, when another group of educators sponsored by FACHRES-CA visited El Salvador. He added that the State Department claims that nothing has changed...
After the conference, McGinn said he will begin working on a plan to sponsor a conference on the quality of education in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras...
...capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica but on the U.S., calling the raid "a cowardly and criminal act." Said D'Escoto: "The only true responsibility is President Reagan's and his Administration's, which has conceived, directed and financed the counterrevolutionary groups...
Even if the colonel's remarks seemed oddly bland, he knew that the stakes are high in the Honduran war games. For one thing, the Big Pine exercises are taking place next door to revolutionary Nicaragua, a country the Reagan Administration considers to be a dangerous Marxist-Leninist force in the hemisphere, with ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union. For another, El Salvador is also in the neighborhood, and although the Administration has consistently ruled out the possibility of sending U.S. troops to fight leftist guerrillas there, American advisers in Honduras have begun training Salvadoran soldiers...
...three airstrips that are being carved out of the jungle, a number of other installations helpful to the U.S. are under way in Honduras. One is a radar station on Tiger Island, a small outcropping that juts into the critical Gulf of Fonseca. That body of water separates Nicaragua from El Salvador. U.S. military officials are closemouthed about the purpose of the Tiger Island radar station. But the facility will obviously monitor the clandestine arms traffic that the Reagan Administration insists is flowing from Nicaragua to the rebels in El Salvador...