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Perhaps the flexibility shown at different times this summer by the Nicaraguans, El Salvadoran rebels, and Fidel Castro was caused in part by these exercises. I witnessed one small part of this effort, and found it to be not only highly professional, but quite moderate...
McGinn said that he will also recommend that the United States demand that the El Salvadoran government provide charges for all the political prisoners, many of whom have been in jail for several months without any charges being pressed...
...from the 16-in. guns of the recommissioned battleship U.S.S. New Jersey. In between, he took a tense helicopter ride, spiraling into a heavily guarded barrio of El Salvador's provincial capital, San Vicente. After he touched down, he expressed his concern and sympathy to residents of a Salvadoran refugee camp...
During his tour, Weinberger met with Salvadoran Defense Minister Carlos Eugenic Vides Casanova, whose U.S.-trained troops had not seen much fighting lately. They soon did. At roughly the same time as Weinberger's visit, a force of between 500 to 600 leftist insurgents suddenly ended a two-month lull in the country's civil war by attacking the center of San Miguel, El Salvador's third largest city. After killing at least 20 members of the local garrison and wounding more than 100 in a seven-hour siege, the rebels began to withdraw as dawn approached...
...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 for the job. As much as anything else, the Big Pine exercises are intended to show U.S. determination to prevent the spread of Communism in Central America...