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...fact is, there is little if any prospect that President Reagan would send U.S. forces into El Salvador. As Haig himself remarked, Reagan has a visceral reluctance to consider any such idea. But the Administration is moving quickly to help the Duarte government. After a guerrilla raid at El Salvador's principal military airport, Ilopango, the Reagan Administration announced last week that it would rush $55 million in emergency military aid to the Duarte regime. Much of the money was needed to replace six helicopters and eight airplanes that were destroyed in the guerrilla attack. The replacement helicopters were...
...disappear each month. Last week, for example, at least 19 people were killed during an antiguerrilla sweep by the Salvadoran army through a poor suburb of the nation's capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes by the soldiers and shot. Many of the corpses were clad only in their underwear...
...March and December 1971 probably has no parallel in modern history except the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews. Under the pretext of putting down a threat to the unity of the nation of Pakistan, the genocide proceeded with a brutal and purposeful efficiency. Beginning in March with a raid by the Pakistani army on the capital city of Dacca, it fanned out rapidly to the countryside, destroying the villages and terrorizing smaller cities...
...much lower: "about eleven" aircraft and four of the helicopters that are so useful in fighting El Salvador's long-smoldering guerrilla war were destroyed. There was no doubt, however, that the insurgents had dealt the government a major setback. Said a U.S. military officer about the airport raid: "Disastrous...
...Ilopango bomb blasts had echoes in Washington, where the Reagan Administration is the principal backer of El Salvador's President José Napoleón Duarte. Following the raid, the State Department declared that "we must be prepared to increase our economic and our military assistance to El Salvador as necessary. We are presently reassessing needs on an urgent basis." Among other things, that relief package was now bound to include more helicopters...