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...trainers, for the most part, are senior noncommissioned officers who speak some Spanish; many have served on training teams in other Latin American countries or at U.S. Army bases in Panama...
...training of Salvadoran troops by the U.S. began in early 1980 at Fort Gulick in Panama, where the School of the Americas specializes in teaching antiguerrilla warfare. At the urging of the Carter Administration, school officials designed a special curriculum for the Salvadorans. Formally titled "Aspects of Human Rights in Internal Defense and Development," the three-week course offers basic training in how to search and take a prisoner, with special emphasis on protecting the prisoner's rights. Some 250 Salvadorans took the course last year, and another 150 are expected to graduate this year. One recent visitor...
...items--a pre-Columbian gold greave and cuff from Panama--were taken on Wednesday night or Thursday morning by two men who fled the building when they were discovered by a security guard, Garth L. Bawden, assistant director of the Peabody, said...
...Reagan flops, Dolan will have a hard time convincing frustrated voters that they want further cutbacks on social programs and money spent on defense. Either way, Weicker figures Dolan will shoot his political wad too early on non-economic issues such as abortion, prayer in schools, and the Panama Canal treaty. "The bulk of the people are too busy worrying about paychecks to be distracted over the long run by the single-issue movement," Weicker says...
...have a situation where they have said, 'We're going to lift the grain embargo against the Soviets, the Panama Canal treaty was awful, the SALT treaty should be rejected, no aid for New York City, no aid for Chrysler, that kind of thing. You follow through on that attitude, you've got chaos," he adds...