Word: salvadoran
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...American policy, El Salvador's provisional President, Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, on his first official trip to Washington, and President Reagan emerged from two hours of White House meetings last week to issue none-too-subtle pitches aimed straight at Capitol Hill. Both Presidents stressed support for Salvadoran democracy, land reform and human rights-prime congressional priorities...
...other problems, the Reagan Administration showed no signs of quailing before that threat. The White House has decided to send 20 to 25 U.S. medical specialists to El Salvador. More important, the U.S. has already announced that it will send 100 military advisers to Honduras in order to train Salvadoran troops. In doing so, the Administration gets around the self-imposed ceiling of 55 U.S. trainers allowed in El Salvador. Nonetheless, said an Administration official, "there's no consideration at present of increasing personnel, funding or the level of U.S. involvement" in Central America...
...Four months ago, Hinton married a Salvadoran. While the relationship may have contributed to Hinton's sophisticated understanding of El Salvador, it did not violate any State Department regulations and played no role in his transfer...
...spilled over Honduran borders. U.S.-backed anti-Sandinista guerrillas have turned the country into a staging ground for operations against leftist Nicaragua. Two weeks ago, the Reagan Administration announced that it would send an additional 100 U.S. military advisers to Honduras and that the Americans would begin to train Salvadoran troops at Puerto Castilla on Honduras' northern coast. Many Hondurans fear that their fledgling democracy may be in danger. Warned a pastoral letter from the powerful Roman Catholic Church hierarchy last October: "Even though we have a more democratic society, people do not enjoy the necessary tranquillity of freedom...
...important role in advancing U.S. interests in the region, particularly efforts to harass Nicaragua, that he has become a law unto himself. They claim he has shrewdly manipulated fears of a Sandinista invasion in order to consolidate his own power. Some Hondurans also worry that U.S.-trained and -equipped Salvadoran troops could one day turn on Honduras to settle border conflicts that helped trigger a war between the two countries in 1969. Says Efraín Díaz Arrivillaga, the sole Christian Democratic deputy in the 82-member Honduran Congress: "The U.S. emphasis on giving money to the military...