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...Engineers are the mechanized advance guard of ambitious U.S. plans for the poor and underdeveloped country. They were laying the groundwork for a much heralded series of U.S. military maneuvers in Honduras, scheduled to last until at least next March. Among the aims of the exercises, known as Big Pine II, is the training of approximately 6,000 local soldiers-about 50% of the Honduran army-in U.S. combat and counterinsurgency tactics...
More important, the operation is intended to give U.S. soldiers fighting experience on Central American terrain. Says a U.S. Army colonel attached to the Big Pine exercises: "It's a marvelous opportunity to bring in troops from the U.S. to a foreign country and learn how to operate on foreign soil...
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...
...Pine II is also designed to give the U.S. a new form of military permanence in the region. For a time, Honduras was seen as a possible alternative to Panama for the U.S. Army School of the Americas, where, as of June 1983, some 42,200 Latin American soldiers have received additional training; Panamanian permission for the U.S. to continue running the school was granted only this year. Even though the possibility of moving the school to Honduras has been postponed, American strategists still see the country as a bastion for the U.S. in Central America. That prospect troubles some...
...thick-aired Thursday morning in Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc nails with which to seal the top. The cheap wooden boxes were placed in the back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles...